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The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jews
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The invasion of Poland were both from Germany and the Soviet Union after the Soviet Union had signed a pact to not fight against Germany
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The Soviet Union invaded Finland with 465,000 men. Helsinki was bombed and many Finns were killed
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Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of England after the following prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, grew out of favor with the people of Britain after making poor choices
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Germany invaded France and defeated the allies in a series of attacks
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The Battle of Britain was defence by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain against the German Air Forces
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The Battle of the Balkans began with the invasion of Italy. Shortly after, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary took control of most of Greece after the Allies surrendered on the island of Crete
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The Lend-Lease Act was military aid to Britain which the Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or echange of arms and supplies
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The German blitzkrieg on the Soviet Union looked optistic, but almost became a reality until the harsh Russian winters killed many of the German troops and eventually forced them out of the country
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The Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor
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The Japanese interment camps were relocation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans
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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle between the United States and Japan, six months after Pearl Harbor
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Guadalcanal, which is part of the Solomon Islands in the south-west Pacific, was the location of bitter fighting beftween the United States and Japan
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union for control of the ciry of Stalingrad in southern Russia
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The Battle of El Alamein in Egypt was between the Allied powers and the Axis powers over North Africa which the Allies eventually won
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill, which took place in Tehran, Iran
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D-Day was an allied invasion of Normandy
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom
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Franklin D. Roosevelt led the United States through Great Depression and WWII. He dealt with polio most of his life, He died in Warm Springs Georgia in 1945.
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Mussolini was executed after attempting to flee Italy with his wife
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Hitler killed himself with a gunshot and his wife also committed suicide by taking cyanide
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The Potsdam Conference which was a conference to negotiate terms for the end of WWII. The conference included Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman
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With consent of the United Kingdom, the United States dropped atomic bombs in the final stages of WWII
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The U.N. (United Nations), was organized to promote international co-operation
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The Nuremberg Trials were held to convict Nazi leaders as criminals after the Holocaust
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The Cold War was military and political tension between Russia and The United States
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to help rebuild Western European countries
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At the end of WWII, The U.S., British, and Soviet Union occupied and divided Germany
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MacArthur's plan for Japan was that the Soviet Union was allowed little or no power influence over Japan. Japan had to be occupied by a foreign country
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The Berlin Wall divided Berlin as well as dividing East Germany from West Germany
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning a missile deployment in Cuba
