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1941
u boats take over guam and wake islands -
April 18 1942
a small group carriers launch army aircraft bombed tokyo -
By the spring of 1942
Soviet Union had regained one sixth of the territory it had lost in 1941. -
By May 1942
the British had withdrawn from Burma and focused on the defense of India. -
the spring and summer of 1943
General MacArthur and Admiral W.F. (Bull) Halsey worked closely together -
. On July 25 1943
Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as premier of Italy. -
on September 8 1943
This took Italy out of the war, but the Germans, under Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, continued to fight. -
February 1943
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands finally fell to United States Marines and Army forces -
In February 1943
General Eisenhower was appointed commander in chief of the Allied armies in the North African theater of operations. -
In November 1943
a United States Marine-Army force invaded the Gilbert Islands. -
1943 the Japanese
were on the defensive everywhere in the Pacific. -
d day 1944
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
In December 1944
British General William Slim’s 14th Army launched a campaign to drive the Japanese from Burma. -
the night of April 30 1945
To escape capture by the Soviets Hitler committed suicide -
On August 6 1945
a B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, a major munitions center, destroying about three fifths of the city. When the Japanese still refused to surrender, a more powerful atomic bomb was dropped on the port city of Nagasaki, leaving it in ruins. As many as 120,000 people died in these two attacks. -
on April 28.
In Italy Mussolini was caught and shot by partisans -
On September 2, 1945
Japan formally surrendered aboard the battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. -
On July 26
Allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany. They demanded that Japan immediately surrender or face utter destruction. -
Early in 1945
General MacArthur’s forces in the Pacific landed an invasion force at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, in the Philippines. Effective resistance in Manila ended in late February. -
Early in 1945
General MacArthur’s forces in the Pacific landed an invasion force at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, in the Philippines. Effective resistance in Manila ended in late February.
