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hitler is time man of the year
time magazine names hitler man of the year -
st louis refusal
a ship of mainly jewish passengers is refused passage into cuba -
germany invades poland
germany attacks poland via bombing to regain land -
france surrenders to germany
germany invades france and they surrender -
the war for brittan
wwII air battle fought by the royal air force to guard brittan. -
lend lease program
main means of providing aid to foreign countries -
US extends japanese embargo
the US refuses to sell the japanese oil or steel and freezes their bank acounts -
us defends iceland
U.S. Navy had the responsibility of protecting convoys in the nearby sea routes from attack by German submarines. -
pearl harbor
an attack via bombing on the us's pearl harbor by the japanese -
churchill and roosevelt plan
Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a future peace. -
italy surrenders
Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies -
D-Day
On D-Day, three airborne divisions, one British and two American, would drop behind the landing beaches. -
the fall of rome
The unseemly race between British and American forces to be the first to reach Rome was the culmination of a series of blunders by the Allies, including a disastrous setback on the Rapido River, and at Anzio, where they were nearly thrown back into the sea -
Battle of the budge
the last major german offense of wwII -
FDR dies
While sitting for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage -
mussolini dies
After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed -
germany surrenderse
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
V-E day
The public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
atomic bomb tested
the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. -
hitlers death
the day hitler killed himself
