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World War 2

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  • WWII Begins

    WWII Begins
    Germany attacks Poland

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japan destroys the U.S Navy boats that were in Pearl harbor

  • U.S. enters World War II

    The U.S decides to oficially enter world war 2 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

  • Bataan Death March

    Japan had many prisoners and did not know what to do with them so they didnt give them water and treated them badly, many died before they got to Bataan.

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet

  • Island hopping

    Island hopping
    A term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination.

  • Battle of Normandy/ D-day

    U.S army successfully gets ashore into France.

  • Concentration Camps begin to be liberated

    Concentration Camps begin to be liberated
    Russia liberates concentration camps in germany

  • Franklin Roosevelt dies

    Franklin Roosevelt dies
    The president's attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke)

  • V-E Day

    Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.

  • Harry Truman becomes president

    Harry Truman becomes president
    During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia.

  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference
    Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill.

  • U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    U.S bombs japanese city of Hiroshima in response to bombing at Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    U.S drops an atomic bomb on the japanese city Nagasaki in response to the bombing in pearl harbor

  • V-J Day

    V-J Day
    The day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II,