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WWII
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Invasion of Poland.
Congress passes cash-and-carry law to ease the sell of arms to countries at war. Germany invaded Poland. -
War begins.
Chamberlain broadcasts to announce that the war has begun. Chamberlain forms a War Cabinet, which includes Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and Eden as Secretary for the Dominions. -
Itally joins War.
On this day in 1940, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
Tripartite Pact
On this day the axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies. -
Invasion of Russia
The invasion was pushed back five weeks to June 22. Almost everyone knew it was coming except the Red Army soldiers about to meet the onslaught. -
Pearl Harbor attack
21 ships of the U.S Pacific Fleet were sunk or greatly damaged.
The Japanese attacked military airfields at the same time they hit the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. -
FDR Pearl Harbor Speech.
FDR delievers the speech to the congress at 12:30p.m. Within an hour of the speech Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan. -
Battle of Midway.
The Battle of Midway fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid Pacific base at Midway atoll represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. -
Operation Husky.
A major world war II campaign. Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners -
Invasion of Italy.
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. -
D-day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
battle of the Bulge.
was a major German offensive launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region. -
Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin. -
Germany surrenders.
The Germany command agreed to surrender. -
The first atomic bomb Hiroshima.
Hiroshima was charred and leveled beyond recognition. Some 140,000 people died in the attack. Another 70,000 died when U.S. forces dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. -
Second atomic bomb dropped.
On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki -
Japan Surrenders.
In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered.
