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