World War II

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  • Selective Service and Training Act

    The Selective Training and Service Act was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. This Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men aged 18 to 45 were made subject to military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register.

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese planned a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  • Executive Order 9066

    Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, the innocuously titled “Executive Order Authorizing The Secretary of War To Prescribe Military Areas.

  • Philippines

    The weary defenders of the Philippines finally surrendered.

  • Japanese Troop Convoy

    A Japanese troop convoy was intercepted and destroyed by the U.S. Navy at Coral Sea, preventing a Japanese attack on Australia.

  • Doolittle Raids

    Was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II.

  • Miway Island

    A clever trap lured four critical Japanese carriers to their destruction at Midway Island and essentially broke the back of the empire's naval and air power.

  • Yamamoto attack

    Japan got on the defensive and Yamamoto and his plane ambushed & shot down over Bougainville Island.

  • Preperation for Philippines

    The U.S. paused from attacking the Japanese to prepare for the repatriation of the Philippines, using 700 ships carrying over 16,000 troops for the invasion.

  • Americans attack Iwo Jima

    The Americans used amphibious landing vehicles, flame-throwers, and explosives to attack the Japanese bunkers, which made a lot of the Japanese drown.

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe Day, known as V-E Day, was the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

  • Hiroshima

    This is when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima. They bombed them first.

  • Nagasaki

    3 days after Hiroshima was bombed, Nagasaki was bombed by the U.S. as well.

  • V-J Day

    Victory over Japan Day, also known as Victory in the Pacific Day or V-J Day, is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event