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It was a world wide event
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unemployment and economic depression led to bitter poverty in Germany
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Ethiopians invaded Manchuria
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Japan controlls China
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Hitler forced Austria to jion forces with Germans
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German invades Poland
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
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Congress created the War Production Board
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The United States Navy, led by Admiral Chester Nimitz, won an important victory at Midway Island
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the Nazis retreated from North Africa, suffering heavy losses.
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The Allies liberated Italy from Nazi control
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They landed at a series of points farther east along the Normandy coast on D-Day.
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Allies liberated the jubilant city from four years of German occupation.
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They began amassing enormous supplies of munitions and troops, totaling nearly 3 million men.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met together at Yalta in the Crimea, a region in the southern part of the Soviet Union. They hoped to agree on the outlines of peace.
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The remaining German forces surrendered unconditionally on May 8, 1945, bringing “V-E Day,”
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This is the second bomb in three days that the US has dropped on Japan. The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time.
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Unable to resist further, Japanese leaders sued for peace on August 10, 1945, asking only that their Emperor, Hirohito be allowed to remain on his throne, though stripped of power.
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Nuremberg trail begins
