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Nazi Germany Invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak city, that began World War II in Europe. -
Sitzkrieg
The Phoney War aka the The Sitting War is an eight-month period at the start of World War II, where there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. -
Manhhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War 2. -
France Fell To Germany
France signed an armistice with Germany surrendering and Hitler insisted that it be done in the same railway car in which Germany had surrendered to France in 1918, at the end of World War I. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the Germany. -
Destroyers for Bases Deal
In the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom fifty mothballed destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
America First Committee Launched
An anti-war organization, peaking at 80,000 members and 450 charters, resisiting American involvement in WW2. -
Congress Instituted the Draft
Burke-Wadsworth Act is passed by Congress and the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States is imposed making it legal to recruit people for the military. -
Four Freedoms
Freedoms made by FDR during his State of the Union speech, the freedoms were things he felt like everyone should be entitled to. -
Lend Lease Act
Signed by Roosevelt, this act was the principal means for providing aid to foreign countries during World War 2. -
USS Kearny Attacked
Attacked by German U-boats, USS Kearny was a US marine boat used during World War 2. -
Reuben James Sunk
Sunk by German submarine U-552, the Reuben James was the first US Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the eastern hemisphere of World War 2. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Attack was a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that made the United States enter World War 2. -
Battle of Bataan
In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippines after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -
Bataan Death March
The death march was the march from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of tens and thousands of Filipino and American prisoners of war which began after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
General MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched an 'Island Hopping' campaign with their strategy being to capture the Pacific islands one by one, advancing towards Japan and bypassing and isolating centres of resistance. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The first air-sea battle in history, the battle of Coral Sea was a fight between the Japanese and United States/Australia for control of the Coral Sea. -
Battle of Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway took place in the Pacific Theater of War, and is considered the most important battle in the Pacific ultimately being the turning point of World War 2 for the United States. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city, Stalingrad. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany. -
Casablanca Conference
A meeting between FR and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, this conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
The Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. -
D-Day
The storming of Normandy by Allied Forces in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Macarthur Returned to the Philippines
In October, Macarhur reached the Philippine Island of Letye and made a broadcast declaring ḧe´s home. -
FDR Elected to 4th Term
The only president to serve a fourth term ever is FDR in 1944. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea during World War Two with FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army. -
Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engaged the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War which was also the last and biggest of the Pacific island battles. -
FDR Dies / Harry Truman becomes president
While he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said “I have a terrific headache" and fainted. He died two hours later, of a cerebral hemorrhage. After F.D.R.’s Vice-President, Harry S. Truman, a former senator from Missouri, got the news at the Capitol, the Secret Service rushed him to the White House, where he was sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan Stone. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Postsdam Conference
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Trumam met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima
The US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy and was the first nuclear weapon used in war. -
Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
The bombing of Nagasaki was the last major act of World War Two. -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender of Japan was announced to the world. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trials, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, or simply the Tribunal, was put in place to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes.
