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Full scale invasion on Poland, began WWII in Europe; Germany, Italy, Japan vs Britain and France.
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Period during WWII in winter where Germany took a break from invading countries because of the bad weather.
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Project where the US developed and tested the nuclear bomb from splitting the atom.
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France fell to Germany within a week of Germany's Blitzkrieg attacks.
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Roosevelt couldn’t openly defy the Neutrality Acts so he gave Britain dozens of US ships in ‘exchange’ for some Englished owned land.
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German aircrafts flew over London and dropped 100’s of bombs for weeks straight.
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Group formed to speak out against America’s involvement in WWII, preached how bad it would be to get involved in European militaristic issues.
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Roosevelt delivered a speech saying that the US should help Britain with war materials, Roosevelt said that they should help Britain and other countries that were devoted to freedom.
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Roosevelt proposed that they should let Britain borrow all US arms on credit to fight against the Axis powers.
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The American government instituted the Selective Service Act once again, this means that young men between certain ages had to go to war if they were called upon.
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US ship was torpedoed but didn’t sink, the ship eventually made it to the Icelandic shore with a few casualties.
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First US ship that was sunk by Axis powers during WWII. Killed 155 people aboard.
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Japanese aircrafts flew over ships docked in Pearl Harbor early in the morning and bombed almost every ship, roughly 2,500 people died.
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Japanese forces completely overwhelmed the Allies and Japan gained control over Philippines
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The Japanese forced roughly 80,000 Philippine and American prisoners of war to march dozens of miles to prison camps after the US surrender on Bataan peninsula.
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US military, mainly MacArthur, decided that to gain control of all of Japanese controlled islands they would conquer the smaller ones and slowly make their way to the bigger and main ones.
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US aircrafts stopped the Japanese from invading Australia, 1 of 2 turning points in the sub-war between US and Japanese.
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US intercepted encoded messages from Japan and decoded them; US ended up destroying hundreds of Japanese ships and a few aircrafts.
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Considered greatest battle of the war, stopped German movement towards Soviet Union and helped the Allies gain more leverage.
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British forces fought against German-Italy forces to gain back some of the land the Axis powers had taken over in North Africa.
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First ‘Big Three’ conference, but with only US and Britain; Roosevelt and Churchill made an agreement to invade Sicily and demand surrender from Axis powers.
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‘Big Three’ officially met in this Iranian city; decided that US and Britain would unite to get France free while the Soviet Union would take care of Japan.
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US invaded France to try and liberate them from Germany’s hold, by going through the beach of Normandy.
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Went there with hundreds of ships and thousands of men on his way to Japan; Japan waged many battles against MacArthur to try and keep control of Philippines. US won all of them.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President to serve 3+ terms, unfortunately he died before he could finish his 4th term.
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One of Hitler’s last attacks on Allied forces, caught the Allies by surprise and were able to push back their troops significantly, but it didn’t work completely.
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3rd meeting between the ‘Big Three’ along coast of Soviet Union; all agreed on multiple reforms that helped demonstrate peace.
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The Allied powers first strike on Japanese Islands
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Last major battle of WWII and debatably one of the bloodiest; attack was part of Operation Ice-burg.
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Happened after Yalta conference, where FDR died suddenly. Truman had to immediately replace him in the war effort
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“Victory in Europe” weeks after Hitler's suicide the German government officially surrendered to the Allied powers wholeheartedly and completely.
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The new leaders of US and Britain met with Stalin, and agreed to hold war trials for Nazi leaders and allow Japan to surrender without negotiation.
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First atomic bombing in Japan, first time in history atomic bombs were used in warfare.
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Second atomic bombing in Japan
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“Victory in Japan” Japan formally surrendered to Allied powers on this date, but it had been unofficially confirmed a week or so before.
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Used to put extreme Nazi war criminals on trial for crimes against humanity; German equivalent of Japanese War Crime Trials.
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Trials were conducted for 28 Japanese military and government personnel that were accused of doing horrendous acts during WWII; 25/28 were found guilty.
