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Night of the Long Knives
Adolf Hitler sends his elite SS guards to murder Nazi leaders after fearing the parliament has become too powerful. -
Holocaust
Hitler put hatred on the Jews and planned the act of genocide which got a lot of Jewish people killed. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany and Soviet put their plan (Non-Aggression Act) to action by attacking Poland. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany tried to attack the Soviet by using the same strategy used on Poland, which was Blitzkrieg (involved fast moving planes and tanks followed by a massive infantry force), but drastically got defeated. -
Hitler takes over Balkans
Hitler tries to expand his communty's terrotory and takes over the Blakans -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes a Prime minister after Clement Attlee. -
German attacks France
German went in between the Maginot Line in order to get to France since Hitler's agenda was to conquer. -
The Battle of Britain
German started to bomb the Royal Air Force(RAF) and Britain's cities and factories in order to break British's morale. -
Lend-Lease Act
This bill provided enabled President America to provide its allies with war materials. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise hoping that they would gain colonial power. -
The Battle of Midway
Followed by the Batte of Guadalcanal, this was mostly fought on air and the United States won the war against the Japanese. -
McArthur's Plan for Japan
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McArthur starts to rebuild Japan by demilitarizing and democratizing Japan, which they accepted his plan since they suffered from the defeat of the war. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
This was a battle between the Japanese and the United States on land and sea on and around Guadalcanal. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler wanted to seize control of the village Stalingrad, which was occupied by the Soviet. The Germans almost won the war but they got defeated by the Soviets. -
Battle of El Alamein
When Tobruk fell in the hands of General Erwin Rommel(The Desert Fox), London sent its finest general, General Montgomery, which by the time he had arrived, Germans had already advanced to the Egyptian Village El Alamein, and his strategy to attack them was to have a massive frontal attack. -
Tehran Conference
The conference was held with the U.S president and the Soviet and British prime minister to discuss on opening a "second front" in western Europe. -
D-Day
D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord, was the invasion of Normandy by the Allies (British, America, French, & Canada). -
Yalta Conference
This conference, which was held by F.D.R, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, was a meeting to plan the final defeat of the Nazi's and divide German into occupied zones. -
F.D.R's Death
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies before U.S toppers surrender on the Third Reich to the Germans -
Mussolini's Assassination
Mussolini gets murdered by a large mob that disliked him. -
Hitler's Suicide
Hitler kills himself by swallowing a cyanide and shooting himself with a pistol. -
Potsdam Conference
This was a meeting attended by Stalin, Churchill, and Turnman to negotiate peace settlements to end the war (WW2) -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan was warned by the United States and were asked to surrender before they expect " a rain of ruin from the air", which Japan ignored, therefore the U.S.A dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and another one on Nagasaki killing more than 14,000 people. -
Formation of the U.N.
U.N was formed after some countries decided to put their differences aside in order to create peace. -
Nuremberg Trial
This was a trial to convict Nazi leaders charged with war aggression. -
Marshall Plan
This plan was to provide machine, food and other needed or required items by the workers in order to rebuild the Western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet had cut of highways, water, and rail traffic thinking that the Allies would give up West Berlin or stop the idea of reunifying Germany which caused starvation in West Berlin but America and British flew supplies such as food into West Berlin for about a year -
Cold War
This war, which was fought by the Soviet and U.S, was waged on political, economic, and propaganda. -
Berlin Wall
This wall was built to prevent Germans from the East fleeing to the West since millions of the Germans had already fled to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13-day event concerning the ballistic missile that was deployed in Turkey and Italy by U.S, which in response, the Soviet deployed their ballistic missile in Cuba.
