Stars and stripes on mount suribachi (iwo jima)

WWII Timeline: by Aldo Araujo

By branham
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
  • Germany invades Poland; WWII begins

    Germany invades Poland; WWII begins
  • Kristallnacht riots across Germany

    Kristallnacht riots across Germany
  • US Congress passes first peacetime draft

    US Congress passes first peacetime draft
  • Lend-Lease Act passed

    Lend-Lease Act passed
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
  • FDR signs Executive Order 9066 which will lead to JapaneseAmericans being sent to internment camps

  • Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One

    Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One
  • WAACs (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) created

    WAACs (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) created
  • American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle ofMidway

    American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle ofMidway
  • Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa begins

    Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa begins
  • Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday EveningPost as a tribute to working women during the War

    Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday EveningPost as a tribute to working women during the War
  • The Tuskegee Airmen undertake their first combat mission

    The Tuskegee Airmen undertake their first combat mission
  • D-Day: Allied Forces come ashore in Normandy, France

    D-Day: Allied Forces come ashore in Normandy, France
  • Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes byJapan

    Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes byJapan
  • Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigidnorthern European winter

    Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigidnorthern European winter
  • Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet atYalta to discuss post-war Europe

    Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet atYalta to discuss post-war Europe
  • Marines raise US flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for IwoJima

    Marines raise US flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for IwoJima
  • American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe Riverin Germany

    American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe Riverin Germany
  • Victory in Europe (V-E) Day

    Victory in Europe (V-E) Day
  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Child_survivors_of_Auschwitz.jpeg

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Child_survivors_of_Auschwitz.jpeg
  • The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshimaand Nagasaki

    The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshimaand Nagasaki
  • Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII

    Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII
  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin

    Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin