-
Germany troops invaded Poland and attacked naval forces, which caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
-
Also known as the Phoney War and was an eight month period of relative inactivity on Western Front.
-
France signed an armistice with Germany six weeks after invasion of Western Europe.
-
German and British air forces clashed and bombed over United Kingdom.
-
An agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain were U.S. Navy boats were transferred for land rights on British possessions.
-
United States non-interventionist pressure group against U.S. going to war against Germany.
-
President Roosevelt's signed the Selective Training and Service Act which began the first peacetime draft.
-
President FDR gave four freedoms speech that proposed freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
-
Lend-Lease Act was passed to provide U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWII.
-
USS Kearny, U.S. Navy warship was torpedoed by German U-boat.
-
USS Reuben James was sunk by a torpedo from German submarine near Iceland.
-
Japanese planes attacked U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory killing more than 2,300 Americans.
-
Battle was the most intense phased of Japan's invasion of Philippines and overwhelmed Allied forces.
-
Filipinos and Americans were rounded up and forced to march 65 miles by Japanese forces.
-
Battle against Australia and United States against Japanese navy and was a turning point because Allies stopped Japanese advance.
-
Battle was a turning point in the Pacific War and was six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
-
Battle fought against Axis in North Africa and Allied of British Empire.
-
Battle was the first major German loss during WWII which caused them not to advance farther into Europe or Russia.
-
Admiral Chester Nimitz started strategy of strike within distance of Japan's home islands and seizing islands in the Pacific.
-
FDR and Winston and allied forces came together to plan for the next phase
-
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran where they agreed that Britain and America would liberate France and Soviets would invade Germany.
-
Allied forces invaded France in Normandy to liberate France.
-
MacArthur waded ashore onto island of Leyte and declared on radio, "I have returned!"
-
FDR is only president to serve more than two terms due to popularity of helping through war and depression.
-
Was the last major German offensive campaign on Western Front.
-
Big Three conferred again and agreed that Germany would be divided into zones, there would be free elections in liberated countries, Soviets would enter the war against Japan and control Sakhalin island, and a new world peace organization.
-
Iwo Jima was a small Pacific island but proved to be a difficult target and took a month for America to take.
-
Battle was the largest invasion of the Pacific campaign and resulted in 150,00 casualties all together.
-
After FDR's 48 days in his 4th term, Truman went from vice president to president.
-
Germans finally surrendered after Hitler killed himself.
-
A secret military project was to create the first atomic bomb and was originally based in Manhattan, New York.
-
Three leaders met in Germany to issue a warning to Japan to surrender and hold war-crime trials of Nazi leaders.
-
"Little Boy" was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima killing hundred of thousands of people.
-
"Fat Man" was the code name for the atomic bomb that was dropped over Japanese city of Nagasaki by the U.S.
-
It is also known as "Victory-over Japan Day" because Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
-
Trials were held in Germany and judges from the Allied powers presided hearings of 22 major Nazi criminals.
-
A military trials to try leaders of the Empire of Japan who participated in a joint conspiracy to start war.
