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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. -
Germany invades Poland
Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss in Germany (Case White), was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II -
Stalin attacks Finland
was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940 -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Germany sought, by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria, to aid Italy by attacking Greece from the east; while the British landed troops and aircraft to shore up Greek defences -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II -
Lend-Lease Act
Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act. -
battle of britain
was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against the German Air Force. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Japanese internment camps
Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
The British prevented a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt. -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. -
Germany attacks France
was the German invasion of France -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, -
F.D.R’s death
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
Mussolini’s assassination
he "official"[1] version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan who used the nom de guerre of "Colonel Valerio". -
Hitler’s suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese. -
Formation of the U.N.
he United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. -
Berlin Wall
at physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile -
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