World War II

By kaisercarolynm

  • FDR gives "Quarenteen Speech"

  • U.S.S Penay attacked by Japanese in China and sunk

  • BLITZKREIG (Lightening War), Germans attack Poland. Poland defeated

  • 62% of Americans say help Allies but NOT JOIN WAR

  • Cash and Carry (To help Allies)

  • German troops invade Netherlands and Belgium

  • Germans move into France and defeat!

  • Heavy bombing on Britain and Germans hope for surrender

  • FDR elected for 3rd term- preparing for war

  • FDR says must help Britain

  • Hitler breaks Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • Japanese expansion continues

    June/August

  • Japan invades French Indochina

  • Atantic Charter- Churchill/Roosevelt

  • New Japanese leadership: General Hideki Tojo

  • JAPANESE SURPRISE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII

  • Japanese attack S. Asia and Phillippines

  • Germany/Italy declare war on U.S.

  • U.S. enters Manila (Phillippines)

  • MacArthur to Australia: vows will be back to Phillippines

  • Battle at Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

  • Success in N. Africa

  • Italians overthrow Mussolini

  • Germans driven out of Africa

  • Allies organize invasion of Italy

  • Russians make Germans surrender

  • D-Day

  • Allies enter Paris

  • Gen. MacArthur is back in Phillippines

  • U.S. Elections- FDR/Harry Truman win

  • "Battle of the Bulge"

  • MAcArthur captures Manilla from Japanese

  • FDR dies, Truman=President

  • American/Russian soldiers at Elbe River

  • Hitler takes his own life

  • V-E Day: "Victory in Europe"

  • Potsdam Conference

  • Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • 2nd atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

  • Emperor of Japan surrenders

  • Formal Surreder

    WWII ENDS