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First major conflict of the Second World War
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Period of time after the Nazi invasion of Poland in which there was almost no conflict between Allied and Axis forces
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The German invasion of France and the lower countries, such as Belgium, in which the Germans succeeded
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Battle between the Royal Navy and the German Air Force in which the Royal Navy defended their capital from the Nazi invasion
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Agreement between the United States and Great Britain that stated that Great Britain would exchange land rights for American naval destroyers
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This anti-war group was founded on this day and became the largest isolationist driven organization in the United States at the time
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The draft for the United States Armed Forces begins for men ages 21 and 36
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 famous State of the Union address where he proposed the four basic freedoms that everyone in the world should be promised
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Permitted the United States to trade with European nations that were deemed vital to the protection of the United States
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A United States Naval Warship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat before the United States had entered the war. The ship is redirected Iceland with 11 men killed
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The first United States Naval Vessel to be destroyed by the Axis Powers
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Japanese aerial attack on United States Naval base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Research and development team that produced the first nuclear weapons
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The Japanese invasion of the Phillipines
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Transfer of Filipino and American prisoners by Japanese forces across the Phillipines
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Major naval battle in the Pacific Ocean between the Japanese navy and a combination of the American and Australian navies
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Major naval battle that is known as the turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Military strategy that coordinated the raids of individual Pacific islands one by one moving towards Japan rather than invading the Japanese mainland
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Major battle that took place in a major city of the Soviet Union's and was the turning point for the war in Europe
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Major ground battle that took place just west of Cairo, Egypt and marked the turning point for the war in Northern Africa
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Meeting between some of the leaders of the Allied Powers including President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and representatives of the Free French cause
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Meeting between the "Big Three;" Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin: at which they held at the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran
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The Allied Powers' execution of Operation Overlord which ordered the invasion of Normandy, France, soon to be known as the largest seaborne invasion in history
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After being given an executive order to avoid capture by leaving the island and its doomed residents, General MacArthur returns
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected for his fourth term in the oval office
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German offensive through lower countries and into parts of France
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Another meeting between the Big Three in which they discussed post-war reorganization
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A United States Marine Corps invasion on the island of Iwo Jima with the objective of taking control of the entire island, including the few Japanese military establishments present
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Series of Allied attacks on the island of Okinawa, which included the largest amphibious assault for the Pacific side of the war
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt died shortly after the beginning of his fourth term and was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman
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The conflict in Europe is brought to an end after the surrender of Nazi Germany but the war continues with the Japanese
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Meeting between leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States in which they decided on what the repercussions should be for Germany's actions
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The "Little Boy" hydrogen bomb was dropped on this Japanese city
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The "Fat Man" hydrogen bomb was dropped on this Japanese city
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The final Axis Power surrenders to the Allies bringing an end to the entirety of the Second World War
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The trial for many European Axis Power leaders that were accused for their involvment in the Holocaust or for other war crimes
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The equivalent of the Nuremburg Trials but for the Asian Axis Power. Military anad political officials were tried for their war crimes throughout the Asian continent
