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Japan fought against China with the economic help from Germany. Largest Asian war in the 20th century.
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Germans invaded Poland after signing a non-aggression pact with them. This ultimately started World War II. It was also a sort of payback attack after Poland received so much land after World War I.
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Germany's attempt to gain air superiority over The Royal Air Force.
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This forms the axis powers: Germany, Japan, Italy.
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A program where the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, France, and the Republic of China and other Allied nations with materials for war between 1941 and 1945.
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The capture of this city was one of the three strategic goals of Operation Barbossa. The siege lasted almost 3 years.
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A failed German Blitzkrieg attack agianst the Russians in Stalingrad.
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Japanese air force attacked the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Representatives from 26 nations at war with the Axis Powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the Untied Nations.
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Was a meeting of all senior Nazi officials in the Berlin suburbs. They met about the final solution to the "Jewish problem".
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One of the most important naval battles in World War II. The U.S. struck a heavy blow by defeating the Japanese in this battle.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
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Where the leaders of the Allied countries, Franklin Roosvelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met about decisions regarding the future and postwar progress.
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Major battle in the Pacific between the U.S. and Japan where the United States captured Iwo Jima.
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Last and biggest battle in the Pacific warfare during World War II.
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Hitler committed suicide by gunshot and his wife ingested poison. Their bodies were cremated and then the ashes were burned outside the bunker that they killed themselves in.
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The day that marks the formal acceptance of the unconditional surrender of the Nazis and the Axis Powers.
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The Big Three leaders: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, met in Potsdam Germany to discuss the end of World War II.
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This ended conflicts between Japan and the U.S. and it also ended World War II. This instance remains the only time nuclear weapons have been used in wartime.
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The day that Japan officially surrendered to end World War II.
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Established that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to any democratic nations under threat from internal and external authoritarion forces.
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European Recovery Plan which shipped $13 billion to finance the rebuilding of Europe.
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An intergovermental military alliance based on the document signed.
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Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist and founding father of The People's Republic of China. The People's Republic of China was founded in October of 1949.
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A civil war betwwen communist North Korea and socialist South Korea. Both sides were backed by communists and those anti-communist.
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Stalin died from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was the leader of Russia during World War II and was a main reason in them winning the War. His body was put on display for all of Russia to come and see.
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Was a defense treaty between eight communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was a Soviet reaction to the integration of West Germany.
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Cold War era proxy war that was fought in Southeast Asia. With communist against anticommunist. All of the big communist and anitcommunist supporters sent troops to help win the War.
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The Soviet Union launched this aircraft to accelerate in front of the U.S. in the space race.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. This was planned by the CIA.
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Barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic to cut off West Germany. The wall contained watch towers and gunman.
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Soviets gifted communist Cuba with nuclear weapons to protect thmeselves. The United States sensed a threat and jumped into action by creating a blockade on Cuba.
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The seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union. He became president on March 15, 1990.
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The Soviet Union falls after representatives from the many regions of Russia come together and break away from the Soviets.
