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German Army attacks Poland
German criminal in Polish clothing was shot to look like he was trying to invade. There was a long Blitzkrieg, or lighting war. The shooting just kept going for the whole month. Germany victory by end of the month. -
Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway
Weser Day -
1940 Draft in USA
President Roosevelt signed into law the first peacetime Selective Service Act -
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Most of the Pacific fleet was docked. It was before 8 a.m. when the first fleet of Japanese planes attacked. 20 warships, 200 aircrafts destroyed. 2,400 Americans killed. USS Arizona was one of three ships that could not be restored and was left sunk at the harbor. This was totally unexpected. Only 2 of their 3 fleets attacked. -
Bataan Death March
Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando -
Battle of Guadalcanal
First major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II -
Battle of El Alamein
Ten days of ferocious pounding, was complete Allied victory, although Rommel’s army escaped annihilation and slipped away from an unenterprising pursuit. 100,000 men in total -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Mussolini falls from Power
Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele -
Fall of Rome
American forces took possession back from the Nazi's -
D-Day invasion of Normandy, France
More than 160,000 Allied troops. Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe. American and Brittish troops. Called Operation Overload -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Took less than a month. Battle was on an island against the Japanese. -
Battle of Okinawa
Lrgest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies -
VE - End of War in Europe
Hilter killed himself. Then the Nazi's had to surrender. -
Atomic Bomb Test Day
Successfully tested the bomb -
Bombing Hiroshima
80,000 Japanese killed. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Over 40,000 killed. -
VJ - Japanese Surrenders
August 15, 1945 -Emperor Hirohito surrendered over the radio. Surrender happened on the USS Missouri.
