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Battle of Britain
Summer 1940 British air force vs. German air force Brits "won"
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Blitzkrieg
lightning war, new type of warfare defeat poland in 30 days
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Rape on Nanking
japanese racism, slaughter 200,000 chinese people also experiment with biological warfare on the chinese.
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Pearl Harbor
japanese suprise attack sink 5 battle ships damage 3 most planes get destroyed on the ground
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WWII
1939-1945, starts with non-violent takeovers, hits off with poland then moves to full swing war.
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Battle of Midway
June 1942, japanese try to lure american fleet out and sink it, we sink 4 of their aircraft carriers, they get only 1.
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Einsatzgruppen
mobile killing squad numbering about 3000 killed over 1,000,000.
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Auschwitz
deat/concentration camp could kill 20,000 in a day at its height.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
dies before Japan president at start of WWII
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Kamikaze
suicide bombers, japanese run out of skilled pilots this is result.
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Hiroshima
Truman president, 70,000 first day, 130,000 within six months.
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Nagasaki
Truman president, 40,000 first day, 70,000 within 6 months.
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Normandy Invasion (d-day)
1944, puts large army in northern europe, push through land 50,000 tanks and air superiority.
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Axis
Enemy forces, Germany under Adolf Hitler, Italy under Benito Mussolini, and Japan under Emperor Hirohito.
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Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany during WWII killed himself before we got to him.
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Marshall Plan
rebuild western europe to counter soviet expansion, pour ion money to make allies
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Berlin Airlift
1948-1949, Soviets shut off roads to west berlin, USA airlifts in supplies for a year, soviets dont stop it from happeneing.
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Korean war
1950-1953, soviet north korea invades USA south korea, USA afraid of dominoe effect
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Harry Truman
President for Berlin air lift and korean war.
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Stalin
lives until 1953, never a leader like him again (last to be able to consolidate all power)
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Kennedy
president during cuban missile crisis
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queymoy and matsu
1954, 1959, close calls with nukes, chinese shell islands and taiwan resupplies.
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Hungarian uprising 1956
attempt to overthrow communist government put down by soviets.
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Cuban missile crisis
1962, almost nuclear war
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Prague
Spring 1968, Chezk gov't grants small freedoms people want more put down by soviets.
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Algeria
French colony wants independance, French gov't wants to talk military leaders overthrow, and tourture and kill Algerians.
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Detente
1970 when both sides of cold war are talking
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Reagan
heats up cold war doesnt want to talk to soviets, in 1987 he finally talks to Gorbachev and dismantles some weapons.
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Gorbachev
soviet primier, in the 80's buys time by talking with USA to try and reform the government
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Perestroika
make the economy more efficient, by opening up
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Glasnost
part of perestroika
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Berlin wall
falls in 1989 revolutions peaceful and open no killing
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Soviet Union collapses
1991, Nationalism takes hold, soviet union breaks into a bunch of smaller countries.
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Ghandhi
one man we give credit to for indian revolution, non-violent.
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Satyagraha
ideal of dissention of people from british ideals to stop cooperating with british and thus gain independance.
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Nehru
one of the leading members of the india congress set up by british
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