-
Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
-
the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force
-
It was an agency of the United States that promoted inter-American cooperation, especially in commercial and economic areas.
-
Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
-
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Sensing weakness, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later.
-
The declaration was an agreement among signing nations to uphold the Atlantic Charter, to employ all their resources in the war against the Axis powers, and to promise that no nation would try to seek a separate peace with any Axis nation
-
surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese
-
was an agreement. between the U.S. and Mexican governments that permitted Mexican citizens to take temporary agricultural work in the United States.
-
600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
-
Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
-
British, US, and Canadian troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
-
the Allies of World War II accept the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
-
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-
The governments of 21 countries of the continent approved in Bogotá, Colombia, the declaration by which the Organization of American States was created