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May 4, 1442
Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One
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May 14, 1442
WAACs (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) created
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Period: Jun 4, 1442 to Jun 7, 1442
American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway
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Nov 8, 1442
Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa begins
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May 19, 1443
“Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post as a tribute to working women during the War
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Jun 2, 1443
The Tuskegee Airmen undertake their first combat mission
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Jun 4, 1444
D-Day: Allied Forces come ashore in Normandy, France
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Oct 26, 1444
Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes by Japan
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Dec 16, 1444
Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigid northern European winter
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Kristallnacht riots across Germany
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Germany invades Poland; WWII begins
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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 Executive Order 9066 which will lead to Japanese Americans being sent to internment camps
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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz 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 the battle for Iwo Jima
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American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe River in Germany
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Victory in Europe (V-E) Day
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The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin E
