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USSR ruler after 1985 who renewed attacks on Stalinism and proclaimed plicies of glasnost and perestroika.
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Japan launched full-scale invasion of China; start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Nazi invades Poland and defeat Poland in one month; laater divided between Germany and Soviet Union.
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German attempt to invade and defeat the English almost solely through air attacksled by the Luftwaffe.
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Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where by which each pledged to declare war on any nation that attacked any of them
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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.
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Hitler's formidable Blitzkrieg ("lightning war") tactic consisted of using mobile troops to cause disorganization among enemy troops.
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Nazi armys unseccesful attempt to capture city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union during WWII that lasted 872 days.
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Japanese surprise attack that hopes to destroy American naval capacity in the Pacific, to clear the way for the conquest of southeast Asia and to create a defensive Japanese perimeter.
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A meeting between the Nazi officials in which the "Final solution" and use of concentration camps were decided.
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U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers; it marked a turning point in World War II.
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Allied incasion of western Europe that stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France; the turning point of World War II.
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Conference between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin during WWII to make final war plans, arrange the post-war fate of Germany, and discuss the proposal for creation of the United Nations.
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Battles where savage fighting occurs between U.S. and Japan where U.S. innovative amphibious tactics and the vigor and sacrifice of Japanese soldiers and pillots.
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Before Germans surrendered unconditionally on 8 May 1945, Hitler commited suicide in his underground bunker.
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Victory in Europe when the Germans surrendered; WWII in Europe ended.
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The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union that discussed the future of Europe.
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Nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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On this day, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
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International organization formed to ensure world peace based on collective security and to createa regional militarian alliance against Soviet agression.
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President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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U.S. plan, officially called the European Recovery Program, that offered financial and other econmic aid to all European states that had suffered from World War II.
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Organization formed as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies.
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After defeating Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalist party, Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party created the People's Republic of China.
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The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea whereas the Soviet Unions and China support North Korea.
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After Stalin's death; Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's rule of terror and promoted an active policy of de-Stalinization.
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An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations as a response to the NATO.
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A conflict between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, and etc.) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
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First artificial Earth satellite launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space.
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Abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos directed by U.S. government.
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The separation barrier between East Germany and West Germany from 1961 to 1989.
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Cold War event that was the closest that the Soviet Union and Unites States came to war with one another where Soviet deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at U.S..
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Marked the end of the Cold War and by popular agreement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 independent states.
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JJSWAG was born. :D
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Ms Ashby is married to Johnathan Chounith
