U.S. History Timeline

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  • Nazi Germany invades Poland

    Nazi Germany invaded Poland

  • Germany begins invasion of U.S.S.R.

  • Japan attacks at Pearl Harbor

  • Colonel James Doolittle led a group of 16 American bombers on a daring air raid of Tokyo and several other Japanese cities

  • Americans win Battle of Guadalcanal

  • D-Day; The U.S. invasion of Normany, France

  • Germans launched "Battle of the Bulge"

    ---referred to the bulge in the Allied battle lines created by the German advance

  • American troops led by General Patton provided relif for American force in Bastogne

  • U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of the island called Iwo Jima

  • group of Marines made it to the top of Mount Suribachi and raised American flag

    group of Marines made it to the top of Mount Suribachi and raised American flag

  • Allied troops invade Okinawa

  • a group of American troops spotted a Soviet force on the other side of the Elbe River

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin

  • VE Day; Unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany

  • Hirohito announced end of the war in radio broadcast

  • Formal Surrender of Japan