WWII Timeline - Sam

By branham

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Kristallnacht riots across Germany

  • Germany invades Poland; WWII begins

  • US Congress passes first peacetime draft

  • Lend-Lease Act passed

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • FDR signs Executive Order 9066 which will lead to Japanese Americans being sent to internment camps

  • Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One

  • WAAC's (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) created

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    American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway

  • 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 Evening Post as a tribute to working women during the War

  • “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post 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 by Japan

  • Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes by Japan

  • Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigid northern European winter

  • Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigid northern European winter

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz death camp

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz death camp

  • Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss post-war Europe

  • Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss post-war Europe

  • Marines raise US flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima

  • Marines raise US flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima

  • American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe River in Germany

  • American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe River in Germany

  • Victory in Europe (V-E) Day

  • Victory in Europe (V-E) Day

  • Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII

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    The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin