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Japan wanted more resources so they invade China. China and Japan exchanged fire at the Lugou bridge, a crucial access-route to Beijing. Japanese forces invaded Beijing.
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The world did nothing in favor of appeasing Hitler. Germany and the Soviet Union made a pact to invade Poland together.
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France and England declared war. Germany invaded Poland with the help of the Soviet.
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The invasion of Belgium begins. In a bold stroke, German paratroops capture the Belgian fort Eben Emael.
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
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The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin by, respectively, Adolf Hitler, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu.
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The Tuskegee Airmen was an all-black fighter pilot regiment. They were discriminated and told that they couldn't fly as well as a white man could, but that was proven wrong since the Tuskeegee Airmen had a flawless record.
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Japan needed to disable the US so they could seize rubber plantations in French Indochina and oil fields in the Dutch Indies. Japan wanted victory over China.
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The turning point of the war in the Pacific. The Japanese offense was massacred.
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President Roosevelt approves work on the Atomic bomb.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
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U.S. Army Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower was promoted to the four-star rank and chosen to command the Allied armies positioned in Europe.
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Allied Forces launch the largest air, land, and sea attack in history. Target is Normandy beach, occupied by Nazi forces. Turning point of the war in the Allies' favor.
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The softening-up bombardment on Iwo Jima begins.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of cereberal hemorrhage.
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Not long after FDR's death, Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as the new President of the United States.
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One of the two atomic bombs made, dubbed Little Boy and Fat Man, was dropped on the military-oriented city of Hiroshima.
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The second atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped on the military-oriented city Nagasaki.
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After teh bombings of Hirohito and Nagasaki, emporer Hirohito issues a radio broadcast declaring the surrender of Japan, marking the end of WWII.
