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Shepherd World War 2 Timeline

  • Nuetrality Act

    Nuetrality Act
    U.S. cannot sell weapons or give loans to warring countries
  • FDR's Quarantine Speech

    FDR's Quarantine Speech
    Must stop the spread of totalitarion regimes.
  • Start of WW2

    Start of WW2
    When Germany invades Poland, marking the official start of WW2.
  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic
    Was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II. Introduced U-boats and was the dominating factor all through the war.
  • Cash and Carry

    Cash and Carry
    Can get U.S. weapons but must pay cash and pick up.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    U.S loans BR 50 warships for lease of 8 military bases.
  • Batle of Britain

    Batle of Britain
    The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter
    FDR and Churchill meet to establish common war objectives.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    A surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    A forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid
    An air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II. It was the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea
    A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific during World War II.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia,
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Invasion of Normandy, France.
  • Battle of Leyte Gulf

    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    The Battle of Leyte Gulf, formerly known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima
    When the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa
    It was the largest 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.
  • V Day

    V Day
    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
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan Surrenders
    The surrender of the Empire of Japan was signed, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.