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Pearl Harbor
The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. -
U.S. arrives in Britain
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U.S. surrender
U.S. troops on Bataan in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese , and the Bataan Death March begins -
Holocost
Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars -
German troops surrender
Over 90,000 German troops at Stalingrad surrender to the Soviets. It is a significant turning point in the war against Germany. -
Italy declares
October 13, 1943Italy declares war on Germany. -
Germans surrender
German troops surrender in the Crimea -
D-day
June 6, 1944D-Day. Operation Overlord -- the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe -- begins on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
battle of the bulge
The German attack in the Ardennes begin -
Battle of the Bulge ends
In Western Europe, the Battle of the Bulge ends. Americans suffered some 75,000 casualties and the Germans lost 80,000 to l00,000. The Americans can recover from their military losses; the Germans cannot. Few people besides Hitler believe Germany can still win the war. -
Atomic Bomb
The Atomic bomb killed people in the military as well as japenesse citizens. "Fat Man," which was the second bomb, exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m. It exploded at 1,650 feet with a force of 22,000 tons of TNT. Due to the boming, 70,000 people lost their lives in Nagasaki by the end of 1945 A total of 140,00 died within the next five years.
