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Japan Invades China
Japan blames China for blowing up a Manchurian railroad and they used that as justification for invading China. The League of Nations warned Japan of aggression but lacked the power to enforce it on Japan. Later Japan left the League of Nations. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany launches a surprise Bleitzkreig attack on Poland and quickly captures it. This marked the beggining of World War 2. -
Battle of Britain
Germany launches surpirse aerial attack on Britain. Germany launched a lot of bombs on civilian cities and many innocents were killed. This battle war mostly aerial. -
Tripartite Pact
Japan aligned itself with other nations who challenged post world war 1 peace. Japan signed this 10 year military and economic pact with Germany and Italy. -
Land-Lease Act
Established by the United States, the land-lease act said that the US can supply Britian, China, and the Soivet Union without interviening in the war. This showed how the US was leaning towards the Allies. -
Germany's Blitzkrieg on Russia
Germany's surprise attack on Russia's Leningrad, modern day Leningrad. Also named Operation Barbarossa. -
Germany Captures Leningrad
Germany easily captures Leningrad, modern day St. Petersburg, by a surpirse bleitzkreig. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese launch a surpirse attack on U.S. navy so they could invade surrounding islands and establish a defensive parimete that would thwart the Allies ability to strike at Japan's homeland. -
Wannsee Conference
Fifteen leading Nazi bueaucrats gathered to discuss the "final solution", a plan to externinate all Jews from Germany, eventually to exterminate to all of Europe. -
Battle of Midway
This battle marked the turning point of the USA vs Japan. Before, Japan was winning all their battles but after this battle, the USA started to win. -
D-Day
Allie forces attack German held Normandy. The Germans overwhelmed by US and British bomb forces and finally German resistance faded. -
Yalta Conference
Held by the Soviet Union, USA, and Britian, this conference took place in the Crimea. FDR got Russia to aid agaisnt Japan and to join the United Nations. They decided how to deal with the liberated countries of Eastern Europe. -
Battle of Imo Jiwa and Okinawa
As the Japanese become desperate, they introduce the Kamakaze, suicide plane bombers. -
Hitler's Suicide
During the battle of Normandy, Hitler shoots himself in the head as the Soviet Union, Britian, and US forces crush Germany all almost all sides. -
VE Day
This day takes place a couple of days after the day Germany officially surrenders. Is to celebrate the end of the European side of World War 2. -
Potsdam Confence
Taking place in the Berlin suburbs. They discussed about the Allied control of Germany, the occupation of Austria, and the demarcation of the bondaries of Poland. -
U.S. Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6 and then on Nagasaki in August 9. This was a revolutionary war that showed how devastating newly made war technology can be. Japan soon surrendered after this. -
VJ Day
Japan finally surrenders and many people are celebrating. This days is a couple of days after Japan surrenders and it celebrates the end of World War 2 on the Japanese side. -
U.N. Created
Created to maintain peace throughout the world and to avoid another World War. It is still present today. -
Marshall Plan
Proposed to rebuild the devastated nations of Europe to restall communist or Soviet influence. The Soviet Union saw this has capitalistic imperialism. -
Truman Doctrine
The Unioted States started to intervene for the purpose of the "containment" of communism. Led to the Domino Theory which states that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would soon fall too. -
U.S. Establishes NATO
Established as a regional military alliance agaisnt the Soviet aggression. Was meant to maintain peace through collective defense. -
Mao Zedong Establishes the People's Republic of China
The communist party of Mao Zedong that brought to an end the long period of imperialist intrustion in China and spawned a close relationship between the world's largest and most powerful socialist states. -
Korean War
Influenced by Russia, communist North Korea tries to invade capitlistic South Korea to reunite Korea. Ended in a defeat for the North Koreans as US forces launch a risky attack on the capital of North Korea. -
Death of Stalin
After the death of Stalin the people of Russia begin to question Stalin's rule. His sccessor Khrushhev embarked on a policy to de-Stalinize Russia. -
Warsaw Pact
Established by Russia, it was made to counterbalance NATO. It is a military alliance of 7 communist European nations. -
Sputnik
Russian sattelite the started the competition between the United States and Russia known as the "space race". As the sattelite launched, citizens of the United States begin to question its educational system. -
Vietnam War
The United States intervieneced to try to keep South Vietnam a democracy, opposed to North Vietnam which wasn't. -
Bay of Pigs
The United States send in agents to try to assinate Fedil Castrol and deminish his influence. The agents were captured and Castrol's influence was tightened around Cuba. -
Berlin Wall Built
A wall dividing Russia ruled East Germany and Allied ruled West Germany. The western side recieved support from Britian, France, and the United States. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Russia set up nuclear missiles in Cuba. JFK warned Russia to take back their missiles and Russia realized how dangerous a nuclear war can be and pulled them back. -
Gorbachev
Russian politican who helped to end the Cold War with his policies. He worked to reconstruct the government and liberalize society as communishm unravel. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
During the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was divided into fifteen seperate countries. They overthrew Gorbachev to establish a market-oriented economy and not communism.
