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Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland to take it over and divid it with Russia because they are under a peace treaty -
Stalin attacks Finland
"War between Finland and Russia, David and Golliath, good and evil,
democracy and totalitarianism, freedom and slavery, against the Third Aggressor of WWII" -
Germany attacks France
German attacks France inorder to take controll -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain and is going to help in the war -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler gained control over Rumania and the Balkans, as King Carol accepted the ultimatum and renounced the guarantee of protection pledged a year ago by Anglo-French imperialism. -
Lend-Lease Act
System by which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
e battle of Stalingrad is considered by historians as a decisive turning point of World War II, during which German forces were defeated after five months of combat. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese,and because of that the U.S is pulled in to the war. -
Japanese internment camps
U.S.A puts most of the Asian population in the camps because of the parnoia of them being spys -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two. -
Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal took place in 1942 when the US Marines landed on August 7th. The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed - but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat -
Holocaust
Hitler moved the Jews out the gettos and in to the Concentration Camps -
Tehran Conference
The chief discussion centred on the opening of a “second front” in western Europe. -
D-Day
Operation Overlord, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
He wanted to take back the Philippines -
Yalta Conference
President Franklin D. Roosevelt , Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, which met at Yalta in the Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
F.D.R’s death
F.D. R dies from brain clots -
Mussolini’s assassination
Mussolini’s assassination. He and his wife where hung up side down and shot at for amusment -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler sprawled on the sofa, dripping with blood from a gunshot to his right temple. Eva Braun had died from swallowing poison. -
Potsdam Conference
The conferees discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The U.S bombs Hiroshima & Nagasaki in hope they surrender -
Atomic bomb is droped on Nagasaki
U.S bombs Nagasaki as well -
Formation of the U.N.
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. -
Cold War
the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of WW II, Berlin was divided into American, British, French, and Soviet sectors. Supplies for western sectors had to pass through the Soviet-controlled zone, and as friction between the USSR and the West widened so the Soviets increased interference with traffic. -
Berlin Wall
barricades of paving stones were erected, tanks were gathered at crucial places and subways and local railway services were interrupted, so that within a day the West of Berlin was completely sealed off from the East. -
Cuban Missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
Marshall Plan
Europe was devastated by years of conflict during World War II. Millions of people had been killed or wounded. Industrial and residential centers in England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and elsewhere lay in ruins. Much of Europe was on the brink of famine as agricultural production had been disrupted by war.
