Timeline of the 1940's

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  • Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected

    Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected
    Franklin D Roosevelt waselected for an unprecedented third term of as America's 32 nd president.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor beginning Wold War II.

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    The Bataan death march was a forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland fought against German soldiers who intended to round them up and send them to the Trelinka death camp.

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Allies launched an attack by sea, landing on the beaches of Normandy on the northern coast of Nazi occupied France.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide
    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head with his pistol, likely after swallowing cyanide.

  • Winston Churchill Speech

    Winston Churchill Speech
    Winston Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" speech

  • Exodus

    Exodus
    Jewish refuges aboard the Exodus turned back by the British. The ship known as Exodus 1947left southern France on a secret mission to land 4,515 Jewish men, women and children in Palestine.

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

    Dewey Defeats Truman
    Harry S Truman surprised everyone when he, and not Thomas E Dewey, won the 1948 election for President of the United States.

  • NATO

    NATO
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 western nations. NATO is an inergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic.