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Battle of Britain
The British found out that they would be attacked by France. The way they found out was by decoding the German radio transmission. -
Germany Invaded Poland
Hitler wanted to make a nonagression pack with Poland but hechanged his mind and just decided to invade them. They then brought in 2000 tanks and over 1000 planes and broke through Frances border. Poland then gave up until Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin wanted to attack Finland and tried to to attack them.. Stalin was concerned about the Soviet Union being invaded. He thought Leningrad was a few kilometers from the Finland border so he decided to attack them. Finlands lost about 20 percent of their soldiers and signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union -
Churchill becomes prime minister
Winston Chirchill wasnt really applauded a whoel lot. When he becasem prime minster he decided to attac the lower countries such as Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg which ended the 'PHONY WAR' -
Germany Attacks France
Germany decides to attack the French and they started with breaking through their wired borders. They then conquered the French Capital and France signed with Germany to occupy some of their lansd. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany attacked the Soviet Union from different sides of their place. Then both sides were ordered not to retreat. In the end, Germany had a better advatnage then the Soviet Union. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler wanted to invade a few countries and the Balkns was one of them -
Lend-Lease-Act
The lend lease act was important from the Britain becasue they lost to Germany's navy and were in need for supplies. They went to FDR (president of the US) and asked him for soldiers, weapons, and etc. FDR made an agreement that the United States was still neutral though while supplying Britain their equipment. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
More than 2,400 Americans wereby the bombing of the Japanese people which was also one of the main reasons for the United States to enter the World War -
Formation of the U.N.
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
Holocaust
The mass murdered of millions of Jews by the leader Hitler -
Japaneses Internment Camps
Japan decided to put about 120,000 japanese in internment camps which they were killind in. (Just like the Holocaust) -
The Battle of El Amein
The batlle was fought in the desert of Africa.The Battle of El Alamein was fought between two commanders of World War Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. Eventually the Germans surrendered. -
The Batttle of Midway
The Japanese tried to atack the United States by sending a majority of their navy to US's airfield and the US lost the carrier Yorktown. in the end, Japanese went back to their place because they were losing vital air support. -
Guadacanal
It was a battle for the United States that took 6 months to defeat the Japanese -
Battle of Stalingrad
Many people died, when the Russians took back Talingrad. -
D-Day
It was the largest shore invasion til this day bringing in eventually over 2 million soldiers on the French shore -
Tehran Conference
It was the first major meeting between untied states, britain, russia, which led them to an agreement to divide germany into zones of the occupation after the war. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a WWII meeting between the head states of, United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. They were planning the occupation of the postwar Germany. -
FDR's death
FDR was hanging around with his friends at 1pm until he started feeling a sharp pain in his head. The sharp pain in his head was actually a massive cerebral hemorrhage which caused his death. -
Mussolini's Assasination
A small irish lady with mental illness came out of the crowd with her reveolver and shot Mussolini him in the head when he was trying to get in the car -
Hitler kills himself
Adolf Hitler commits suicide. We think it was also becasue he was losing the war -
Postdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman met in Potsdam for a meeting. They had made an agreement for Germany to stop the war. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The united states dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Which basically ended the war. -
Cold War
Was the continuing fued between the united states and the soviet union.They would do anything to beat each other. Sometimes they would try to build better guns against each other or even to be competetive. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
McArthur helped to draft a new constitution. Under his guidance, Japan recovered from the war and was on its way to becoming a leading industrial world power. -
Nuremburg Trials
They wre trials over nazi soldiers against the crimes they have commited. -
Marshall Plan
It was a plan to help aid Europe back after WW11 and its devestating affects. They tried to lower the cost of trade barriers betweeen Europe and the US -
Berlin Airlift
It was cargo planes dropping down food, fuel, and essential goods to the west berlin area during the cold war becasue they werent able to get a lot fo food.The allies tried to make it possible to free the people from Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
It was a wall that divided that cut off west berling to east germany and east berlin. People couldnt get out cause of this wall but there were some people who tried to jump acrosse the berlin wall and make it. Some died trying. -
Cuban Missil Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was created when the Soviet Union deployed inter-mediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) armed with nuclear warheads in Cuba, 90 miles from the United States. When they were discovered, President Kennedy established a blockade (the best of many bad choices, including an invasion) around Cuba to prevent a further Soviet buildup.
