Unit 5 History Review By history666 Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria dd Aug 2, 1934 Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany Oct 1, 1938 Germany invades Sudetenland Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass Sep 3, 1939 France and Great Britain declare war on Germany Period: Sep 3, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Jun 22, 1940 France surrenders to Germany Sep 27, 1940 Axis Powers sign the Tripartite Pact Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor is bombed Dec 11, 1941 US declare war on Germany Mar 11, 1942 MacArthur leaves the Bataan Peninsula May 15, 1942 Women's Auxiliary Army Corps are formed Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Jan 31, 1943 Soviets win the Battle of Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 D-Day occurs a day later than planned Dec 16, 1944 Beginning of the Battle of the Bulge Apr 12, 1945 FDR dies and Truman becomes president May 8, 1945 Allies celebrate V-E Day Aug 6, 1945 Little Boy bombs Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Fat Man bombs Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders Oct 24, 1945 UN is established Jun 26, 1948 Berlin Airlift begins Oct 1, 1949 China becomes communist under Mao Zedong Jun 25, 1950 Korean War begins Jun 19, 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies Jul 27, 1953 Korean War ends May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education outlaws school segregation Oct 4, 1957 Soviets launch Sputnik Jul 29, 1958 NASA is established May 1, 1960 U-2 is shot down by the Soviets
