15.3 Timeline

  • Teheran Conference

    Teheran Conference
    FDR, Stalin, and Churchill meet and agreed to open a second front to split the German army to fight on two fronts.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Allies launched an attack on Normandy to open a second front and lead to the decline of the Nazi army.
  • Paris Liberated

    Paris Liberated
    Paris, France was liberated from German rule.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germany launched a counterattack on D-Day but ended up crippling themselves by using up their reserves.
  • FDR's Death

    FDR's Death
    Franklin D. Roosevelt died in his fourth term and was succeeded by Truman. Death of FDR shocks Americans all over the U.S.A.
  • Hitler's Death

    Hitler's Death
    Hitler commits suicide in his bomb proof shelter with his wife Eva Braun.
  • V.E. Day

    Allies won WWII in Europe and was celebrated.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    Americans drop the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    America dropped another Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan after Japan refused to surrender after Hiroshima.
  • Japan Surrender

    American General, Douglas MacArthur, accepts Japan's surrender ending WWII.