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Japan invades manchuria
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Adolf hitler becomes chancellor of germany
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Kristollnacht
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Germany invades poland
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US congress passes first peacetime draft
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Lend lease act passed
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Japanese attack on pearl harbor
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FDR signs off for Japanese americans being sent to internment camps
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Office of Price administration issues of Radiation book one
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WAAC´s created
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american naval forces defeat the japanese navy at the battle of midway
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Operation torch, the allied invasion of north america
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rosie the riveter is created
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the tuskegee airmen undertake their first combat mission
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Japanese navy defeated at leyte gulf
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battle of the bulge
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Soviet troops liberated auchuitz death camp
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Winston churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and joseph stalin meet at yalta to discuss post war europe
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Marines raise US flag on Mt. suribachi during battle for iwo jima
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American forces meet up with russian allies
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Victory in europe (V-E) Day
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The US drops atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki
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japan signs the surrender agreement, ending ww2
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Nuremburg war crime trials of nazi leaders begin
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D day allied forces come ashore normandy france