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This German invasion sparked WWII.
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There was an 8th month period where no major fighting happened on the western front, the press coined it sitzkrieg.
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France remained under Axis control until the Allied landings.
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The German Luftwaffe attempted to overtake the UK but ultimately lost to the British air force.
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The committee, one of the biggest anti-war efforts in American history, was launched on the premise that America should not intervene in WWII.
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The U.S. traded naval destroyers for land rights on British bases.
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For the first time in the U.S., a draft was instituted in peacetime.
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This act allowed the U.S. to lease military supplies where it saw fit.
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Roosevelt broke the tradition of non-interventionism in the U.S. by saying all people in the world deserved four specific freedoms.
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This was the first attack on U.S. property, further pushing America to the brink.
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This was the first U.S. ship sunk in hostile action.
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Pearl Harbor is suddenly attacked by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes.
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The battle of midway is argued the most important naval battle in the war
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Germany suffered a humiliating defeat at Stalingrad. This was the first major loss for Germany.
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Japanese forces overwhelm the Allies and take the Bataan peninsula.
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The U.S. begins construction on a nuclear weapon for fear that Germany would complete one first.
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Several thousand American and Filipino prisoners of war were marched across the Philippines.
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This was the first air-sea battle in history.
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A key part of the Western Desert Campaign.
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This was the first conference between the major three allied powers leaders.
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Macarthur and Nimitz take up the policy of capturing Pacific islands one at a time.
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Roosevelt and Churchill met in Morocco.
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The Allied forces storm Normandy.
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Two and a half years earlier, MacArthur had sworn to return, and on this day he did, bringing with him invasive forces.
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Roosevelt to this day remains the only president to have served more than 2 terms, which serves as a testament to his influence.
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The U.S. overtook the island for its key Japanese bases.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a German offensive that suffered the U.S. the most casualties it had endured the entire war.
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The Allied leaders gathered and determined how they would handle Germany and the aftermath of the war.
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This was the last Pacific battle, also the biggest.
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Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 63.
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The Allied forces accepted Nazi Germany’s surrender.
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The Allied leaders discuss the terms of the end of WWII.
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The U.S. drops the world’s first atomic bomb in war.
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A uranium based twin of Little boy is dropped on Nagasaki, though not the original target.
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This was the final ending of WWII.
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The Nuremberg trials were held in prosecution of officials who took part in The Holocaust or other war crimes.
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Japanese rulers were tried for three kinds of war crimes.
