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Germany attacks Poland
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Japan destroys the U.S Navy boats that were in Pearl harbor
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The U.S decides to oficially enter world war 2 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
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Japan had many prisoners and did not know what to do with them so they didnt give them water and treated them badly, many died before they got to Bataan.
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Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet
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A term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination.
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U.S army successfully gets ashore into France.
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Russia liberates concentration camps in germany
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The president's attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke)
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Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.
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During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia.
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Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill.
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U.S bombs japanese city of Hiroshima in response to bombing at Pearl Harbor
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U.S drops an atomic bomb on the japanese city Nagasaki in response to the bombing in pearl harbor
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The day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II,
