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Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland and starts World War 2. -
Battle of Britain
Germany invaded and attacked Britian with many air strikes and bombings. -
Tripartite pact
Agreement between Italy, Japan, and Germany. Also known as Axis power -
Lend-Lease Act
The U.S.A. would sent the allied powers to fight in world war 2 -
Japan's Invasion of China
Japan attacked and invaded China. -
Germany takes Leningrad
A German military attack on Leningrad. -
Bombinb of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese did a suprise attack on U.S.A military station in Hawaii. Over three thousand people died and this caused the U.S.A to enter world war. -
Wannsee Conference
Meeting that sent the Jews to camps in Poland. -
Battle of Midway
Battle between Japan and America after Pearl Harbor bombing. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German air strikes on the Soviet Union. It failed. -
D-day
The end of fighting in world war 2. -
Yalta Conference
Meeting between allied leaders. -
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The U.S.A captured two islands from Japan. -
Hitler's Suicide
Hitler kills himself once he learns that Germany will lose the wall. -
VE Day
Celebration of the end of the war. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference is from July 17 1945 to August 2. Terms of the end of the war was held here and also talks of how to handle Germany. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Bombing by the U.S.A. on Japan that led to the end of the war. -
VJ Day
The day the Japanses ceased fire and on September 2 Japan surrandered. -
Formation of the U.N.
The U.N. was formed to unite the nations and end the war. -
Truman Doctrine
Was an international relations policy made by U.S.A president Harry Truman. -
Marshall Plan
Plan to help Europe recover after the war. -
NATO
Formed to stand against the soviet union -
Mao Zedong and People's Republic of China
Communist leader -
Korean War
War between North and South Korea. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin died and Khrushchev took over -
Warsaw Pact
Made to rival the NATO -
Sputnik
Was the first satellite sent into space by the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
War in Vietnam between being a reoublic or communist. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed attempt of attacking Cuba by the U.S.A -
Berlin Wall
Formed post world war 2 to seperate east germany and west germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union has missiles in Cuba aimed at the United States. -
Gorbachev
Fromer leader of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union Falls
The Soviet Union become many different states, the main one is Russia.
