WWll and the Early Cold War years - Jacqueline Zamora by Jacqueline Zamora

1930- Hitler Appointed German Leader

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 14:47:53 UTC

The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty.

1939- Hitler invades Poland

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 14:51:11 UTC

The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September.

1940-France falls to the Nazis

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Between 9 May and 22 June 1940, a remarkable German assault on north-west Europe, known as the Battle of France, resulted in the capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries – Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.

1941-Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941. Wikipedia

1942-Battle of Midway

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:06:48 UTC

The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

1942-America joins the war in North Africa

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:08:09 UTC

The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German-occupied Europe. The United States officially entered the war in December 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942.

1943-Allies invade Sicily (Italy)

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:09:47 UTC

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers. Wikipedia

1943- Tehran Conference

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:11:20 UTC

The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. It was held at the Soviet Union's embassy at Tehran in Iran.

1944-D Day

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:12:20 UTC

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

1945-Battle of the Bulge

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:23:22 UTC

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg.

1945-Germany surrenders (V-E Day)

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:26:12 UTC

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May

1945-Potsdam conference

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:27:15 UTC

The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States

1945-US drops Atomic Bombs/ Japan Surrenders

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:36:08 UTC

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure

1947- Truman Doctrine

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 15:39:11 UTC

he United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

1948- Marshall Plan

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 16:44:00 UTC

For the United States, the Marshall Plan provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe

1948-49- Berlin Airlift

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 16:44:52 UTC

The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

1949- NATO

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 16:47:01 UTC

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

1950-53 - Korean War

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 17:17:39 UTC

The Korean War started on 25 June 1950 and ended on 27 July 1953, after the signing of an armistice agreeing that the country would remain divided. At the end of the Second World War, Korea – which had formerly been occupied by the Japanese – was divided along the 38th parallel.

1957- Sputnik

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 17:18:36 UTC

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens

1958- NASA Established

jz200612 — 2024-01-30 17:20:29 UTC

In July 1958, Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the agency, which opened for business on Oct. 1, 1958.