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Geneva convention agreement signed
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Japan invaded Manchuria
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Japan invaded China (Rape of Nanking)
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Hitler invaded Poland (start of World War 2)
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Battle of Britain began
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Hitler invaded the Soviet Union
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Lend-Lease Act was passed
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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"Defeat Hitler First" strategy started
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Battle El Alamein (british prevent the germans from Gaining access to oil at the Suez Canal)
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Hitler began the final solution (extermination of the Jews)
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Rosie the Riveter created
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U.S. began the use if the Navajo code
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle of Midway (turning point battle in the pacific)
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Bataan Death March
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Japanese Americans were put into internment campus
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First Nisei regiments established (Japanese American)
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General Eisenhower led the D-day invasion
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Island hopping campaign began in the pacific
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of okinawa
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Nuremberg Trials held high ranking Nazis put on trial for crimes against humanity)
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
