WWII

  • Rise of the Nazi Germany

  • Neutrality Act of 1937

    President FDR wants to stay out of the war
  • Nazi invade Poland

  • Germany invades Russia

    Operation Barbarossa
  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    US enters the war
  • Executive Order 9102

    War Relocation Authority
    Japanese-Americans put into concentration camps in US
  • America enters the South Pacific

    Preventing Japanese fueling stations
  • D-Day

    Allied forces invade beaches of France
  • Bombing of Dresden

    Bombs created a fire that destroyed 15 square miles from the city center
  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe Day
    NOT THE END OF WWII
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Plutonium bomb
    Dropped by Enola Gay
  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Hydrogen bomb