United States Involvement in World War II

By sluna002

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • FDR asks Congress for a declaration of war against Japan

  • Battle of Midway in the Pacific

  • Island hopping strategy in the Pacific begins in Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific

  • D-day Invasion in Normandy

  • American bombers destroy buildings, resulting in casualties, in the Tokyo Bombing Raid

  • General MacArthur retakes the Philippines

  • Atomic bomb is dropped in Hiroshima

  • Atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders!