ECS GLOBAL STUDIES JG MD

IMPORTANT DATES

100

On this date, the invasion of Normandy or D-Day took place.

June 6th, 1944

200

On this date, the atomic bomb would be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

August 6th, 1945

300

On this date, the Japanese would invade Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack.

December 7th, 1941

400

Over this span of time, the German forces would invade Poland.

Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939 

500

On this date, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

April 30th, 1945

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

100

This important person led India to freedom from the British.

Mohandas Ghandhi

200

This person was nicknamed the sun king.

Louis XIV

300

This person was prime minister of Britain and was the first honorary us citizen.

Winston Churchill

400

This person was an ally to Hitler and was the fascist leader of Italy.

Bendito Mussolini

500

This person was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions central committee and would rise to ultimate party in later years.

Joseph Stalin

IMPORTANT EVENTS

100

This event was a stalemate with no fighting between the U.S. and Soviet Russia.

Cold War.

200

This event in history was a sneak attack taken out by the Japan on the U.S.

Attack on Pearl Harbor.

300

This event had a set of planes flying resources to the allied forces.

Berlin Airlift

400

This event was a series of military tests made by the allied forces.

Nuremberg Trials

500

This event was the physical destruction of the division of Germany.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

NATIONS

100

This nation was an allied power that had been part of the "phony war" with Germany.

France

200

This  nation was an allied force that had created the idea of the iron curtain.

England

300

This nation had a temporary alliance with Germany until later in WW2.

USSR

400

This nation was the largest power within the axis powers.

Germany

500

This nation was the most powerful nation of the allied forces and would join WW2 late.

United States of America

IMPORTANT TERMS

100

This strategy was used to delay the start of WW2.

Appeasement.

200

This strategy was used by the Soviet Union to limit the movement of the allied powers in Germany.

Berlin Blockade

300

This was the ideology that Winston Churchill used to describe the separation of Europe in the Cold War.

Iron Curtain

400

This term describes a way to stop an enemy from expanding.

Containment

500

This was a plan to give 13 million dollars to aid Europe at the end of WW2.

Marshall Plan