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Japan used the Mukden Incident as a reason to invade China. Invaded Manchuria in 1931 & started a full invasion of the country and war by 1937.
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The Polish army fell easily to the control of the Germans due to this invasion, As a result Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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When the German air force, led by Hitler, attempted to invade Great Britain through bombings of British ports. The British held well due to their advanced technology at the time.
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The alliance of Italy, Germany, and Japan, insuring that they would help each other if any of them went to war.
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The principal act of providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Also known as Operation Barbarossa; Hitler's attempt to capture the Soviet Union, but failed miserably due to his underestimation of Soviet industrial capacity.
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Germany plans surprise invasion of Russian heartland, Leningrad & takes the city Seprember of 1941.
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A surprise Japanese naval attack in Hawaii due to American & Japanese tensions.
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Day on which representatives of 26 nations at war met in Washington to sign & agree to not to making a separate peace.
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Meeting of Nazi leaders in Berlin to put the "Final Solution" into order.
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The U.S used the strategy of moving to islands close to Japan for airial based attacks and they were succesful; Was the turning point of WWII.
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The day the U.S army invaded Normandy, France.
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Meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss the re-build of the post-war Europe.
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The battle in which the U.S captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.
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Hitler commits suicide with a pistol in an air-raid shelter in Berlin due to his failure in invading the Soviet Union & due to the fact the russians were closing in.
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The U.S plan to rebuild Europe after the war & stop soviet expansion.
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The day of Germany's unconditional surrender from WWII, which marked a victory for Allied powers in Europe.
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An Allied conference held in Potsdam, Berlin to discuss european peace settlements & Germany's surrender in the war. Attendees were Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill.
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The first bomb dropped in Hiroshima and the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later. These bombings forced Japan to later surrender from WWII on August 15, 1945.
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The day the Japanese withdrew from World War II in surrender.
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Policy set by U.S president Harry Truman, that declared economic & military support to Greece & Turkey to prevent soviet domination.
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In 1949, the U.S. created NATO, a military alliance to control Soviet aggression.
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Was the Chinese leader who led China's communist revolution. Took control of China on October,1949 and renamed it the People's Republic of China.
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Korea was divided at the 38th parallel in 1948. June of 1950 North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and captured Seoul. Both sides agreed to a cease-fire on July 1953.
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When Stalin died on March 5th, 1953 there was a struggle of power between Nikita Khrushchev and Georgi Malenkov. Khrushchev eventually won & took power.
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Was a mutually defensive pact inculding the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
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In attempt to support non-communist government in South Vietnam, the U.S. goes to war with communist Vietnam. It is ultimately a U.S. defeat.
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A series of Soviet artificial satellites that triggered the "space race". The first sputnik was launched on October 4th, 1957.
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Failed attempt by the U.S to attack Cuba's communist government led by Fidel Castro.The attack only worsened relations between Cuba & the U.S.
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A wall lined with barbed wire to seperate East & West Germany. U.S. & Britain support to West and Soviet support to East.
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Soviet deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba & targeted them at the U.S. Kennedy blockaded Cuba and demanded removal of the missiles.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union until it's collapse in 1991. He established many social and political reforms to strengthen the economy of Russia, but they failed.
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Gorbachev's reforms caused a declining standard of living and food shortages. In 1991, conservatives wished to restore communism; regions of ethnic groups became independent. By December of 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to further exist.
