ww2 key events

By sambone

  • Battle for Britain

  • FDR approves “shoot on sight”

  • Japan joins Axis

  • Hitler breaks Non-Aggression agreement

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washinton, DC

  • Pearl Harbor attacked

  • 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

  • Sicily falls

  • D-Day

  • General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa

  • MacArthur returns

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi

  • Okinawa taken

  • Kamikaze attacks begin

    off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands):

  • Truman becomes president

  • Rome falls

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E Day

  • Hiroshima

    target was the city of Hiroshima the atomic bomb was called "Little Boy,"

  • Nagasaki

    the atomic bomb was nicked named "Fat Man"

  • V- J Day

  • formal surrender of Japan