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The Anschluss of Austria
Hitler was ready to emgineer the Anschluss, or Union of Austria and Germany(Orchestrated by Hitler). -
The Munich Conference
British and French convinced the Czechs to give up sudentdenland to appease Hitler. -
The Nazi Soviet Pact
An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to keep peace between each country. -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler orders a "lighting war" or constant bombing on Norway and Belgium. -
Operation Sea Lion
Hitler invades Britain -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Soviet Union to take over their vast natural resources. -
Pearl Harbor
A suprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400 people and the reason America entered WWII. -
Island Hopping
A goal of the U.S. to defeat the Japanese one island at a time and allowed them to move north. -
"Big Three"
FDR, Winston Churchill, anmd Joseph Stalin meet and decided to first fight the war in Europe and then in the Pacific(Japenese). -
The Yalta Conference
The Big Three decided to fight Japan within 3 months of Germany's surrender. -
D-Day
U.S. invades France to defeat the Germans. -
United Nations
Allowed U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China to keep peace worldwide. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe! -
The Manhattan Project
A code name for the A-bomb. Truman warned Japan that they should surrender becasue of the WMD that the U.S. had. -
The A-bomb
Japan refuses to surrender, so the U.S, drops the A-bomb on Hiroshima. -
The A-bomb
Japan refuses to surrender, so the U.S. drops the A-bomb on Nagasaki. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman launched the new policy "Truman Doctrine". The policy was based on the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman offered a massive aid package to Western European lands to strengthen democratic governments. -
Division of Germany
Germany and Britain within divided into communist and non-communist zones. -
NATO
U.S., Canada, and 10 other countries formed a new military alliance. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union formed a military alliance with 7 satellites in Eastern Europe.
