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Nazi Germany Invades Poland
Invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Sitzkrieg
The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district. -
France Fell to Germany
The German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force -
Destroyers for Bases Deal
In the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and Great Britain, fifty Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
America first Committee Launched
The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost United States non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. -
Congress Instituted the Draft
The United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. -
Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Lend Lease
Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S -
USS Kearny Attacked
USS Kearny was a United States Navy warship during World War II and she was noted for being torpedoed by a German U-boat in before the U.S. had entered the war, but she survived that attack, and later served in North Africa and the Mediterranean. -
Reuben James Sank
USS Reuben James was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II and the first named for Boatswain's Mate Reuben James, who distinguished himself fighting in the Barbary Wars. -
Japanese Attack on Peal Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory -
Battle of Bataan
The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
World War II battle in which the Britain, under General Bernard Montgomery, won a decisive victory over Germany and the Afrika Korps, under Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox), in Egypt, securing the Suez Canal. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway was a World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the most major confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca 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. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
MacArthur Returned to the Phillippines
A few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte. -
FDR Elected to a 4th Term
At the height of the Great Depression, Roosevelt, then governor of New York, was elected the 32nd president of the United States, being the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term and -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, code named Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
FDR Dies/ Harry Truman Became President
Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Postdam Conference
The Potsdam Agreement was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, which concerned the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its borders, and the entire European Theatre of War territory. -
Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
"Little Boy" was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II. -
Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
"Fat Man" was the code name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East April 29, 1946 was a military trial to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for "Class A" crimes, which were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war.
