1942-1953

  • U.S. halt Japanese at coral sea and midway

  • end of ww2

  • Deportation from Lodz to Chelmno

    German Soldiers began transporting Jews and Gypsies from Lodz(ghetto) to Chelmno.
  • wannsee conference

    Reinhard Heydrich convenes the Wannsee Conference and presents plans to coordinate a European-wide solution for the Jewish problem.
  • Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

    Czech agent kills SS General Reinhard Heydrich
  • Germans destroy Lidice

  • German forces attack the Soviet Union

  • Deportation of Jews

  • Gassing operations Begin at Trebinka

  • Death penalty for aiding Jews

  • Russia wins at Stalingard

  • invasion of Italy

  • Warsaw ghetto uprising

    outnumbered and outgunned jewish hid and fight back against the Germans
  • Operation Harvest Festival

    Suriviving workforce jews killed by Germans in Poland
  • invasion of France

  • Fdr Dies

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Cold war begins between the USSR and the United States of America

  • Period: to

    Berlin Airlift

    After the Berlin wall was put up the allies flew suplies to their sectors
  • Nato is formed

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • 22 Amendment

    Limits president to two terms
  • Eisenhower elected as president