U.S. History B/ Andrea Bottomley

  • Germany attacks Poland

    Germany attacks Poland

  • Soviets attack Finland

    Soviets attack Finland

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviet

    Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviet

  • President Hoover signs the Lend-Lease Act

    President Hoover signs the Lend-Lease Act

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    This was the reason the U.S. joined World War II.
  • Massive German air raid on Stalingrad

    Massive German air raid on Stalingrad

  • Germans Surender at Stalingrad

    Germans Surender at Stalingrad

    Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
  • Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.

    Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.

  • First attack toward Cassino, Italy.

  • Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.

  • D-Day

    Hitler attacks Normandy
  • Soviet troops capture Warsaw, Poland.

  • Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.

  • Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • German troops in Italy surrender.

  • Victory in Europe

    Victory in Europe

    Victory in Europe (V-E) Day is declared as German troops continue to surrender to Allies throughout Europe.
  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Japan surenders

    Japan surenders

  • United Nations is born.