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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the name given to the air campaign by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. -
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WORLD WAR II
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FDR approves "shoot on sight"
Germany had been attacking US ships. -
Japan joins Axis
Gave Japan a better chance at controlling the Pacific. -
Hitler breaks Non- Agression agreement and invades the Soviet Union
Over 4.5 million troops of the axis powers invaded the USSR along a 1,800 mile front. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A military strike by the Japenese navy against the US naval base. -
Japenese ambassors arrive in Washington
Spoke with FDR -
Germany and Italy delcare war on US
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MacArthur promises return
Promises to return to the Philippines while retreating from the Japenese. -
Bataan death march
Took place in the Philippines and was later a Japenese war crime. -
Battle of Coral Sea
This was a major naval battle in the Pacific during WWII between the Japenese Navy and allied naval air forces from the US and Australia. This battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged eachother. -
Battle of Midway
Most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII -
Guadalcanal
The battle of Guadalcanal was fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal. -
General Eisenhower and his forces land in North America
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Vichy France Begins
Metropolitan France was divided into a German occupational zone. -
End of Battle of Stalingrad
Surrender of German VI armed forces. -
Silicy Falls
The allies took Silicy from the axis. -
Rome Falls
The allied forces captured their first Axis capital, Rome. -
D-Day
Also known as Normandy Landings were the operations of the allied invasion of Normandy during WWII -
MacArthur Returns
US General Douglas MacArthur kept the promise he made 2 and a half years earlier to the people of the Philippines. He returned to the islands with an invasion force. -
Kamikaze attacks begin
The first mass kamikaze. -
Battle of Bulge
The last major German offensive of the war. -
US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi
Marines raised the American flag at the summit of Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima. -
Okinawa Taken
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. This battle lasted 82 days. -
Truman becomes president
33rd president. -
Hitler commits suicide
The cause of death is suicide by a gunshot wound to the head and cyanide poisoning. -
V-E Day
The date when the WWII allies accepted the surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. -
Hiroshima
Another effort to end the war. -
Nagasaki
Another effort by the United States to end the war, Japan would not accept. -
V-J Day
The ending of WWII. The surrending of Japan also occurred on this day as well. -
Formal Surrender of Japan
Japan surrenders after the bombing of Nagasaki.
