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The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of other people .
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Night of the Long Knives is the purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. hilter was scared that paramilitary had become too powerful,so he ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders
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the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces. Adolf Hitler claimed the invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced so they declared war on Germany after this.
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The Winter War began with a Soviet invasion of Finland three months after World War II, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty
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The Battle of France was the German invasion of France and other Countries .German bombers hit air bases and destroyed large numbers of Allied planes on the ground and Allied air defenses.
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The government was in disarray as Winston Churchill became Prime minister and, Germany ended the War by invading the Low Countries.
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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of World War II.the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by Germany's air force
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After Italy failed in its mission in the Balkans, Hitler and his German war machine moved in to put Yugoslavia and Greece in their place.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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The lend-lease program provided military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States.
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blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and firepower. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II it happened six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. U.S. marines launched a surprise attack and took control of an air base under construction.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the relocation and incarceration in camps.110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them lived on the Pacific coast.
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The Battle of El Alamein was fought between, Montgomery and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender
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The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. it was after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran.
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D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or is to be initiated.. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them.
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The Yalta Conference was the second meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's surrender
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a massive cerebral in Georgia at the age of 63. Roosevelt’s death was in the final months of World War II
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he died in the final days of World War II in Europe. he was executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy
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On this day holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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The Potsdam Conference. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States erupted two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States dropped the bombs after getting the consent of the United Kingdom
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MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms. MacArthur took charge of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers and began the work of rebuilding Japan. MacArthur had the final authority to make all decisions.
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the UN was a replacement for the League of Nations. the organization was established after World War II to prevent more conflict.
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc
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A program which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
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It was when western countries delivered food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union.
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The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the Soviet and the western democratic
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The Cuban Missile Crisis is confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment in Italy and Turkey.
