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Germany invades Poland, despite warnings from Great Britain and France. ...Germany pretty much does whatever it wants.
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"A day that will live in infamy," Pearl Harbor is the name given to the "sudden and deliberate" attack by the Japanese army on the U.S. island of Pearl Harbor.
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The Japanese attack the U.S. Clark Airforce Base in the Philipines.
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American forces in the Philippines surrender (largest surrender). 10,000 soldiers begin the Bataan Death March.
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U.S. begins a small series of airborne raids of Tokyo, Japan.
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The Allied forces invade the Italian island of Sicily.
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The Allies finally seize the city of Rome.
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On this day, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in an attempt to loosen the german hold on the country.
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General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Phillippines in order to recapture the islands and save the remaining men. Name: The Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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The Allies liberate the French capitol of Paris.
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Hitler has Erwin Rommel killed for fear of defeat.
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The first German attack during the Battle of the Bulge.
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The Allied forces eventually liberate the capital of the Phillippines, winning the islands back from the Japanese.
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is declared dead.
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The German soldiers continue to surrender the the Allied forces in Europe
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Ending date of the Potsdam Conference.
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The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese island of Hiroshima.
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The U.S. bombs the Japanese island of Nagasaki.
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Japan surrenders to the Allies.
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The official creation of the United Nations, agreed upon by the formerly warring nations in an effort to create peace.
