-
World War Two
1939 - 1945 The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion of Poland. -
The Japanese attacked pearl harbor
-
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France, the Allied force was able to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.
-
President Roosevelt died. He was succeeded by President Truman.
-
The Russians reached Berlin shortly before the US forces.
-
German forces in Italy surrendered to the Allies.
-
The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
-
just 2 days after Hiroshima, Russia declares war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria.
-
just three days after little boy, America dropped their latest hit, fat boy, on Japan after they refused to surrender. killing 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day.
-
The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
-
2 Sept 1945 MacArthur accepts Japan’s surrender US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender thus formally ending the second world war.
