Timetoast unit 3 part 5 By sethmcm 1929 Geneva Convention agreement signed 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria 1937 Japan invaded Chine (Rape of Nanking) 1939 Hitler Invaded Poland (start of world war 2) 1940 Battle of Britain began 1940 Defeat Hitler First strategy started Couldn't find a date for this one 1941 Hitler invaded the soviet union 1941 Lend-lease act was passed 1941 Japanese attack pearl harbor (Bringing the USA into WW2) 1941 U.S. began the use of the Navajo code 1942 Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in Europe) 1942 Battle of El Almein 1942 Battle of Midway 1942 Japanese americans were put into internment camps 1942 Bataan Death March 1942 Hitler began the Final Solution 1943 Rosie the Riveter created 1944 First Nisei Regiments established (Japanese American) 1944 General Eisenhower led the D-Day invasion 1945 Island Hopping Campaign began in the Pacific 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima 1945 Battle of Okinawa 1945 Nuremberg trials held 1945 Atomic bombs dropped of Hiroshima and Nagasaki