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Congress Instituted the Draft
It authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
It is also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland. -
Sitzkrieg
Also known as the Phoney War , it refers to an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. -
USS Kearny Attacked
It was a United States Navy warship during World War II that was torpedoed by a German U-boat, but survived it. -
France Fell to Germany
It was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain
It's the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force. -
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
Between the U.S. and the U.K., fifty mothballed Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson-class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
America First Committee Launched
It was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. -
Four Freedoms
It was an address known as the Four Freedoms speech that Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. -
Lend-Lease
It was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materials. -
Reuben James Sank
A post-World War I destroyer and was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii that led to the U.S. entry of WW2. -
Battle of Bataan
It represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. -
Bataan Death March
It was the forcible transfer of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Battle of Coral Sea
It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the U.S. and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
It was a crucial and decisive naval battle bewtween the U.S. and Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Manhattan Project Began
It was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
This was a major battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. -
Casablanca Conference
It was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
It was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Tehran Conference
it was a meeting between Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. -
D-Day
They were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
MacArthur Returned to the Philippines
After advancing islands in the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General MacArthur came onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942. -
FDR Elected to a 4th Term
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office; he defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the general election. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
It was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
It was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific. -
FDR Died / Harry Truman Became President
President Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
VE Day
It was the public holiday celebrated on to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Potsdam conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during WW2. -
Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States. -
VJ Day
It's the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
They were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
The U.S. and other countries all held military tribunals to try Japanese indicted for Class B and Class C war crimes.
