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Britain and France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland.
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Fascist Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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America declear war on Japan.
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Withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the compromise bill; An Act to Establish the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps became Public Law
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Navy aviators, plus a great deal of good luck on the American side, cost Japan four irreplaceable fleet carriers, while only one of the three U.S. carriers present was lost. The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific offensive.
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This invasion began under the commander of General Dwright D. Eisenhower.
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Fascist Italy surrenders
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On this day in 1943, the government of Italy declares war on its former Axis partner Germany and joins the battle on the side of the Allies.
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Franklin Roosevelt dies so Harry Truman becomes president.
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On this day in 1945, approximately 1 million German soldiers lay down their arms as the terms of the German unconditional surrender, signed at Caserta on April 29, come into effect.
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On this day in 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces the news of his country's unconditional surrender in World War II over a radio broadcast to the Japanese people.
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General Okamura Yasiyi submitted surrender to Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
