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U-boats sink merchant vessels
Allied merchant ships of 15,000 GRT and more sunk by German U-boats during the Second World War. This list includes auxiliary warships such as armed merchant cruisers. -
Battle for Britain
is the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air For against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command -
FDR approves “shoot on sight”
Germany had been attacking US Ships In the early 1940’s FDR fought back by the shoot on site Tactic -
Hitler breaks Non-Aggression agreement and invades the Soviet Union
germany invades August 23, 1939 Is when it was signed. It was a non-aggression pact between the two countries germany and the soviet union, and pledged neutrality even if the other were attacked by someone else. It remained in effect until june 22, 1941 when Germany implemented Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact -
Pearl Harbor attacked
Four U.S. Navy battleships were sunk (two of which were raised and returned to service later in the war) and all of the four other battleships present were damaged. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship. -
Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washinton, DC
Ambassador of Japan came to the US to negotiate -
Germany and Italy declare war on US
president R This is one of the biggest mistakes Germany makes during the war. Until this time, the outcome of the war in Europe is still very much in doubt. Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program has kept the Allies in the war, but now the full weight of America’s industrial power can be brought to bear. -
MacArthur promises to return
"I shall return" One of the most famous promises in history. “The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.” -
Bataan death march
The march, involving the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war[1] captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps, was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan. Beheadings, cutting of throats and casual shootings were the more common actions. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
coral sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Japanese Navy and air forces from the United States and Australia. It was the first battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Midway
midway Midway was approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it's regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The United States Navy decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
Guadalcanal
is a 2,510-square mile tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. It is the largest island in the Solomon Islands group and it constitutes a province. Guadalcanal was the scene of fierce fighting between American and Japanese soldiers in the Second World War. the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. -
General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa
The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. While the American commanders favored Operation Sledgehammer, landing in Occupied Europe as soon as possible, the British commanders believed that such a course would end in disaster. An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead. -
End of Battle of Stalingrad
a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. -
D-Day
D-Day General Eisenhower made the decision to attack on June 6, 1944. At 0200 that morning one British and two American airborne divisions were dropped behind the beaches in order to secure routes of egress from the beaches for the seaborne forces. After an intensive air and naval bombardment, assault waves of troops began landing at 0630. More than 5,000 ships and 4,000 ship-to-shore craft -
Kamikaze attacks begin
Airplanes, piolited by Japan, were driven right into objects; plane and all -
MacArthur returns
U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer as MacArthur and members of his staff and entourage waded ashore about four hours after the landings. With him were key figures of the exiled Philippine government, Philippine President Sergio Osmeña and Gen. Carlos P. Romulo. -
Battle of the Bulge
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US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi
during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II -
Truman becomes president
Harry Truman inherited the presidency from Franklin D. Roosevelt just before the end of World War II -
Hitler commits suicide
suicide by gunshot, and cyanide poisoning. The lack of public information concerning the whereabouts of Hitler's remains, confused reports stemming from the dual method and other circumstances surrounding the event encouraged rumours that Hitler may have survived the end of World War II. -
V-E Day
when the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On April 30 Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. -
Okinawa taken
Okinawa will now provide the Americans with an invaluable air and naval base from which to launch a sustained and forceful attack on the mainland. -
Nagasaki
After six months of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities the Japanese government ignored an ultimatum given by the Potsdam Declaration. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. -
Hiroshima
America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -
V- J Day
a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Formal surrender of Japan
they noticed that one of the Allied delegates had signed their copy of the Instrument of Surrender on the wrong line. At 9:29 AM, following an historic thirty-three minutes on board the ship, they were piped over Missouri's starboard side with the honors due those now officially at peace with the United States.
