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Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
Marked the beginning of WWII when Hitler finally invaded Poland with the help of Russia. -
Sitzkrieg
An eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district. -
France Fell to Germany
German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front for some time -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe and was first major military campaign fought just by air force -
America First Committee Launched
Influential political pressure group in the United States that opposed aid to the Allies in World War II -
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2, 1940, fifty US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions (FDR's doing) -
Congress Instituted the Draft
Law instituted conscription in peacetime, requiring the registration of all men between 21 and 35, with selection for one year's service by a national lottery. -
Lend-Lease
System by which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks. Mostly helped Britain out more than any other nation -
USS Kearny Attacked
Torpedoed by a German U-boat before the U.S. had entered the war, so further tensions between Germans and US -
Reuben James Sank
The destroyer was sunk by a torpedo attack from German submarine U-552 near Iceland before US entered war (again) -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
Officially got US into the war and made Germany and Italy declare war on them -
Four Freedoms
Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world should have four freedoms: the freedom of speech, the freedom to religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear. -
Bataan Death March
Caused further tensions between US and Japan as Japan killed thousands of Americans in a death march -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt -
Battle of Stalingrad
largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad and failed losing millions of soldiers -
Battle of Bataan
forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and caused further tensions between allied and axis powers -
Battle of Coral Sea
a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia -
Casablanca Conference
meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and planned the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II -
Tehran Conference
Was a meeting b/t allied leaders that focused on the next phases of the war against the Axis powers in Europe and Asia -
D-Day
Largest seaborne invasion in history and began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
FDR Elected to a 4th Term
Only president to have won 4 terms and won due people not wanting to switch candidates in war -
Battle of the Bulge
last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II and ended up losing -
Yalta Conference
Aimed to shape a post-war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II and was resulted in allied victory -
FDR Died / Harry Truman Became President
This left Truman fighting what was left of the war, but victory was mostly inevitable then -
VE Day
Marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Potsdam conference
negotiate terms for the end of World War II and continued what the Yalta conference started -
Manhattan Project Began
Led to the atomic bomb that gave Allied powers a huge advantage over axis powers -
Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
This led to Japan's surrender and this killed a lot of people. -
Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
Complety destroyed the city and killed a lot of peopl -
VJ Day
Day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end -
Nuremberg Trials
Were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
MacArthur Returned to the Philippines
MacArthur and his forces invaded the main Philippine island of Luzon -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
Military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II -
Japanese War Crime Trials
hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
