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Hitler’s suicide
Under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. -
Night of the Long Knives
a purge that took place in Nazi Germany -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler planed to invade Poland after signing a nonaggression act after the soviet union agreed to divide Poland between them. Germany's strategy was to overwhelm Poland and to take them by surprise. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin sent nearly one million troops Finland because it didn't fall with the other cities when Stalin first sent troops. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler made a plan to move to bases in southeastern Europe and make sure the British didn't interfere. -
Germany attacks France
Due to an argument over the Lorraine-Al sac area, Germany attacks France. -
Battle of Britain
a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. -
Lend-Lease Act
was meant to provide U.S military aid to foreign nations during World War ll. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War ll. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II where Nazi Germany, murdered 6 million European Jews, which was most of the Jewish population of Europe. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States base at Pearl Harbor. -
Japanese internment camps
110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated into camps during World War ll. They were incarcerated based on local population and regional politics. -
Battle of Midway
The turning point of the war in the Pacific and allowed the allies to begin taking the offensive. -
Guadalcanal
An island abandoned by Japanese after fierce fighting during World War ll. -
Battle of Stalingrad
allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. -
Battle of El Alamein
'Battle where Allies pushed Axis powers out of North Africa. It was between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army. -
Tehran Conference
After the Invasion of Iran, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met to discuss a strategy to open a second front against Nazi Germany. -
D-day
battle where the Americans, British, and Canadians invaded Nazi occupied France. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Plan was to make Japan an independent state. -
Yalta Conference
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
F.D.R’s death
While on a vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Roosevelt suffers a stroke and dies. -
Mussolini’s assassination
He was executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra. -
Potsdam Conference
The Soviet union, United Kingdom, and United States gathered together to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany,to establish postwar order,peace treaty issues.and countering the effects of the war. -
Formation of the U.N.
an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
Nuremburg Trials
a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
Cold War
Tension after World War ll between powers in the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc. -
Marshall Plan
The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to give assistance to the needy. -
Berlin Airlift
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany. -
Berlin Wall
a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey.
