History timeline of the 1940's

By 5FluffyKittens
  • Attack On Pearl Harbor

    Attack On Pearl Harbor

    When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

  • The Battle of the Midway Begins

    At Midway Islands in the Pacific with the Japanese fleet encountering its first major defeat of the war against the United States military.

  • The Battle of the Midway Ends

  • Developement of the First Atomic Bomb

    signed into agreement between the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York.

  • The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated on the 200th anniversary

    200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • D-Day (The Normandy Invasion)

    Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of France to begin the World War II invasion of Europe that would lead to the liberation of Paris.

  • US retakes the Island of Guam from the Japanese

    The United States military begins to retake the island of Guam after Japanese troops had occupied the island during World War II

  • Death of Hitler

  • The first atomic bomb, the Trinity Test

    is exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, after its production at Los Alamos

  • Bombing run on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

    President Harry S. Truman gives the go-ahead for the use of the atomic bomb with the bombing of Hiroshima. Three days later, the second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for presidency

  • United States withdraws its troops from Korea.

    US soldiers leave Korea after the war has ceased fire.