World War II

  • Battle for Britain

  • FDR approves “shoot on sight”

    FDr approves shoot on sight to protect the US from being attacked my enemy vessels
  • Japan joins Axis

  • Hitler breaks Non-Aggression agreement and invades the Soviet Union

    Hitler breaks Non-Aggression agreement and invades the Soviet Union
  • Pearl Harbor attacked

  • Japanese ambassadors arrive in Washinton, DC

  • Germany and Italy declare war on US

  • Bataan death march

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea
  • Battle of Midway

  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
  • V- J Day

  • General Eisenhower and his forces land in North Africa

  • Vichy France begins

  • End of Battle of Stalingrad

  • Sicily falls

  • Rome falls

  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • MacArthur promises to return

  • Kamikaze attacks begin

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • US flag raised on Mt. Suribachi

  • Okinawa taken

  • Truman becomes president

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E Day

  • Hiroshima

  • Nagasaki

  • Formal surrender of Japan