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Seeking Peace
U.S President FDR sent letters to Adolf Hitler seeking peace -
Kristallnacht
During Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), Jewish businesses are looted, synagogues are set afire, Jews are killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps -
Nazi Germany invaded Poland
This was the act that started World War II -
Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe -
France Surrenders to Germany
The French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe -
Roosevelt aids Britain
Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a deal to give Great Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for naval bases. -
Pearl Harbor Bombed
Japanese planes attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Caused United States to join the war. -
Bataan Death March
Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war -
Start of Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Tunisia Campaign
The Axis forces in North Africa, having sustained 40,000 casualties in Tunisia alone, surrendered; 267,000 German and Italian soldiers became prisoners of war. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. -
Start Battle of the Bulge
Last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
America Captured Iwo Jima
They captured Iwo Jima because of their overwhelming number of arms and men, which made it costly. -
Franklin D Roosevelt Dies
FDR had a cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly. -
Start of Battle of Berlin
Known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II -
Hitler Committed Suicide
He shot himself because he knew the Nazis were going to lose the war. -
Victory in Europe Day
The end of World War II in Europe, also called V-E Day. The Nazis surrendered. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
First US attack on Japan. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Second US attack on Japan. Caused Japan to surrender the war. -
Japan Surrendered
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II. But formally surrendered on September 2, 1945
