Hayley Snyder WWII By hsnyder50 Sep 1, 1939 World War one breaks out! Sep 1, 1939 Germany attacks Poland. May 26, 1940 Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Oct 31, 1940 Battle of Britain ends Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa begins - Germany attacks the Soviet Union. Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Jun 1, 1942 Battle of Midway Sep 3, 1943 Italy surrenders Jun 6, 1944 Dooms Day Apr 1, 1945 President Roosevelt died. He was succeeded by President Truman. Apr 30, 1945 The Death of Adolf Hitler. May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day - also known as V-E Day. Jul 16, 1945 The First successful test of an Atomic Bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, U.S., thereby ushering in the "Atomic Age". Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan Aug 9, 1945 Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Aug 14, 1945 Japanese surrender Sep 2, 1945 Formal surrender of Japanese Forces on USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Sep 2, 1945 US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan's surrender thus formally ending the second world war.
