1940s & the atomic bomb

By groovydana
  • Period: to

    1940s

  • Pearl Harbor is bombed

    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  • Battle of Midway

    significant win for US over Japan

  • Manhattan Project begins

  • Nazis come into power in Europe

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • D-Day

    D-Day invasion of Normandy, France launched

  • Harry S. Truman becomes president

    As VP, Truman suceeded F.D. Roosevelt as president when FDR passed away due to health problems.

  • US bombs Hiroshima

    the first time the atomic bomb was dropped on city

  • US bombs Japan a 2nd time

    US bombed Nagasaki, because Japan did not surrender after the first atomic bomb was dropped.

  • Japan Surrenders!

    marks the end of World War II

  • Gandhi assassinated