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Germany invades Poland the west & then Britain declares war on Germany.
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FDR calls for Congress to repeal the Neutrality Acts. He insists that the United States should continue neutrality and provide Great Britian and France with arms by adopting a cash and carry plan.
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Germans enter Paris, seizing the Eastern division of France.
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The United States organizes set ups to coordinate defense manufacturing and supply material aid to Great Britain. Defense manufacturing will eventually invigorate the United States economy by employing many previously unemployed workers, including an increasing number of women, coining the phrase Rosie the Riveter.
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Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary, & Rumania. Then the Japanese bomb the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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Germany & Italy both declare war on United States. Then the United States institutes an extended military conscription for men ages 20-44.
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Many casualties on both sides but in the end a U.S. victory.
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War rationing books are issued in America with coupons for gasoline, which joins sugar and coffee. Later, during 1943, meat, fats and oils, butter, cheese and processed foods are also rationed.
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FDR & Churchill meet at Casablanca to decide upon a policy of "Unconditional Surrender"; a surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party.
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Paris is liberated by the Allies & taken from the Germans.
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Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
