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1940's timeline

  • Tom and Jerry was made.

    TaJ is a mostly silent cartoon that was about a cat and mouse that got into fights and sometimes helped each other.
  • Finland signs a peace treaty with the USSR

    It ended the war with the USSR and Finland
  • Paris fell to Germany.

    The fall of France to Germany and England started to retaliate against the Nazis.
  • Dunkirk

    The allied forces in France evacuated from the coast to England.
  • First Peacetime Draft in the US

    In the US we hadn't yet got into the war but we were getting ready.
  • German General Erwin Rommel arrives in North Africa

    Erwin Rommel enters Africa and has little resistance in claiming land.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    The US starts selling weapons and supplies to England.
  • Pro Axis Regime in Iraq

    Iraq started a Pro Axis party and overthrow the government. In this event Germany gained immense power.
  • Yugoslavia Surrenders to Axis

    When this happened it gave a large power shift in Europe
  • The first Jeep was Invented.

    The first Jeep car was used in the war.
  • Mount Rushmore is completed

    The Monument Mount Rushmore is given its faces.
  • Atlantic Charter

    The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President FDR and British Prime Minister. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The JAPS bombed Hawaii and the day after the US declared war on Japan and all of its allies.
  • Us and britain declared war on japan

    After Pearl Harbor the US declared war on Japan and all its allies.
  • 1942 Ductape was invented for military use

    Duct tape was made and used in the military for ammo boxes.
  • Battle of midway

    The midway islands are halfway between the US and Japan and this battle almost determined the outcome of the war in the pacific.
  • Anne Frank goes into hiding

    Anne Frank goes into hiding after Germany captures Amsterdam.
  • churchill and stalin meet in moscow

    The Prime Minister of Europe and the dictator of the USSR meet in moscow.
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    At the Ghetto in Warsaw the Jews there started to uprise and after about two days the rebellion was all killed.
  • Bombings in Hamburg cause firestorm in the US

    This bombing is an uproar in the US and so many people want to just stop the war.
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders to the Allied forces. Now the Axis powers are at the bottom of the power chain.
  • Siege of leningrad

    The Nazis are attempting to capture a city in the USSR and fail completely.
  • D-day

    Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  • Philippines liberated

    The Philippines get liberated from the Japs.
  • US Liberates Auschwitz

    US libertes the biggest camp and this marked the end of Germany in WWll
  • Yalta conference

    After the war ended the Allied powers met to discuss what would happen to the conquered countries in Europe.
  • First Computer

    The first computer was made and it could only do simple calculations.
  • Truman was put into office

    After FDR was killed Truman was anointed into office.
  • President Roosevelt died of polio

    President Roosevelt died of polio and now there is a vaccine for polio and it has been mostly iraticated.
  • Germany surrenders

    This marks the end of the war in Europe but the war against Japan is still ongoing.
  • Holocaust ends

    The worst event in WWll.
  • The Berlin Airlift

    After the war Germany was split into different parts and Berlin was split into parts and after the USSR but up a blockade the US would fly supplies into Berlin.
  • Dropped the LARGE bomb on the JAPS!!!!!!!! X2

    When Japan wouldn't surrender Truman had the hardest decision of his life and he chose to drop the bomb.
  • Vietnam declares its independence

    Vietnam declares independence from France and Japan and starts a dispute about what government is the best.
  • First Microwave oven was made

    The first Microwave was made using a new type of radiation "Microwaves" and its main use is to heat things up.
  • 1945 oct 24 United nations is formed

    The United Nations is a group of nations that are committed to world peace and the protection of the environment.
  • Hitler kills himself

    Hitler kills his whole family and then himself.
  • Winston Churchill gives iron curtain speech

    After this speech the US starts being scared of communism.
  • Trump was born

    Trump was born
    The current president of the USA was born this day.
  • Polaroid camera

    The first camera that doesn't have to develop
  • Ferrari makes 125 S

    Ferrari makes its first sports car.
  • Jackie robinson becomes a baseball player

    The best black baseball player of his time. He played for the Brooklyn dodgers.
  • India and Pakistan become independent

    India and Pakistan become independent after the Indo-Pakistani war.
  • League of nations falls apart

    The proposed League of Nations falls apart because the US never joins.
  • Cleveland Indians win the world series

    The Indians win their last world series and go on the longest dry spell.
  • First nonstop flight around the WORLD

    Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager went all the way around the world without stopping.
  • NATO established

    NATO was established as a military alliance of 29 countries.
  • First Nascar race is held.

    The first Nascar race is held at Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina.
  • Communists control China

    The communists rebelion won against non-communists China.
  • The Korean War Starts

    The Korean War starts and the US wants to stop the communists side from winning.