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WW2 TimeLine

  • Concentration camps

    Concentration camps
    No certain date for this.
    Concentration camps were issued in 1933 but were noticed in ww2. In these camps they kept Jews. They were in horrible condition and many died.
  • Uncle sam

    Uncle sam
    NO OFFCIAL DATE In ww2 men had to be drafted. A famous war poster included Uncle sam saying "I Want You For U.S. Army"
  • We Can Do It

    We Can Do It
    No Official date. Since men were drafted in WW2 Women had to do mens jobs.
    Special posters encouarging women to work said "We Can Do It"
  • WW2 Begins

    WW2 Begins
    It depends what you call the actual beginning. Dates differ but this is the most common.
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    WW2

    Timeline of ww2
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Up until this point America was not in the war. But when Pearl Harbor was attacked they were forced to get involved.
    President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
  • Japanese Internment in America

    Japanese Internment in America
    No official date. This happened in 1942. Japanese Americans were also sent to special camps like jews.
    But unlike concentration camps, These camps were in America.
    Some would argue that concentration camps were far worse than these camps, others would say they are the same.
  • Italy Surrenders

    Italy Surrenders
    This was not known in the public until Sept. 8
  • Hitler Is Dead

    Hitler Is Dead
    On this date Aldof Hitler commited suicide.
  • Germany Surrenders!

  • Japan surrenders!

    Japan surrenders!
  • atomic bomb

    atomic bomb
    On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.