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In 1936, Hitler violated a treaty by sending German troops into the Rhineland. As an excuse, Hitler claimed that a recent French military agreement with the Soviet Union threatened Germany.
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Hitler took action to gain control of neighboring Austria. The Anschluss was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Britian and France declare war on Germany
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Germany trapped hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers at the French port of Dunkirk. Allied ships and hundreds of civvilian boats plucked nearly 340,000 troops from the coast and carried them to Great Britain.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in America. The attack lasted barely two hours. By the time it was over, however, the Pacific Fleet was tangled mass of smoking metal. The destruction was enormous. All eight battleships in the harbor suffered damage. Four were sunk. Nearly 200 aircraft were completeky destroyed, and more were damaged. Some 2,400 Americans were dead, Japan lost only a handful of submarines and fewer than 30 aircraft. It was a complete defeat for the United States.
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Major turning point in war, D-day happened in Normandy, France. 150,000 allied troops were carried across the English Channel. They were led by Omar Bradley
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Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin met to plan for postwas peace.Stalin promised to hold elections in Eastern European countries after the war.
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FDR passes away while still in office, vice president Harry Truman takes over
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Marked the formal end of the war in Europe.
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Formal end of the war in Europe.
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Hiroshima, 80,000 killed
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Nagasaki, 40,000 killed
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Emeror Hitohito surrenders over radio
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Japan surrenders on the USS Missouri.
