World War 2 KEy Events

By semmi-hemmi

  • End of fighting for WW1

  • Stock Market Crashed

  • Roosevelt became president

    vice Presidents were Harry Truman who ended up becoming president.

  • Hitler breaks Non-Aggression agreement

  • invasion of poland by germany

  • F.D.R retaliated by "Shoot on site tactic"

  • battle of britian begins

  • Vinchy France begins

  • Japan joins Axis

  • The 1st Japanese Fleet Left

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washinton, DC

  • Pearl Habor

  • Germany and Italy declare war on US

  • MacArthur promises to return

  • Bataan death march

  • Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

  • Guadalcanal

  • End of Battle of Stalingrad

  • north african campaign begins

  • Sicily falls

  • Rome Falls

  • D-Day

  • MacArthur rerturns

  • Kamikaze attacks begin

  • Battle of the Buldge

  • US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi

    Volcano island - IWO JIMA

  • Truman becomes president

  • FDR dies

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitlers supierier race - Ariarn Race
    Hitlers new police force- Gustapos
    The signing agreement between hitler and Stalin- Non-Agrresion Pact
    Hitler blamed these 2 groups for the collapse of WW2- Socialist & Jews
    Hitlers book he had written is named Mein-Keif

  • Victory of Europe

  • Okinawa taken

  • bombing of Hiroshima

  • THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI

  • V- J Day

  • formal surrender of Japan

  • U-boats sink merchant vessels

  • North Korea Crossed 38th parallel line into South Korea

    Northern half is communist and the South is democratic

  • Late Spring Stalemate developed

    seesaw effect

  • Montgomery Buss Boycott

    Rosa Parks.
    Rosa Worked for the NAACP ( national association for the advancement of color people)

  • Emmet Till

    Emmet was killed for saying a couple words to a white woman. Et.al - and others

  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    the brown family got what they wanted, and their daughter could go to an all white elementary school

  • Little Rock

    Central High School ( Gov. Fabus )
    Black students attended this white school causing a riot.

  • The sit-In

    4 black students sat at a white lunch table, and refused to move for the white students.
    Greensboro 4
    SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Confrerence
    SNCC-Student non-violent coordinating committee

  • Nixons reply after every speech

    "Peace with Honor"

  • Tet Offensive

    This took place in Saigon which is a large city in vietnam
    The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong

  • Martin Lutjer King Jr. Assasinated

  • Kent State

    Death of 4 Students at this college