World War II

By mrbmi513

  • Mussolini Comes to Power

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

  • Hitler Takes Power

  • Nuremberg Laws Passed

    These laws restricted the civil rights of jews in Germany

  • Japan invades China

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Battle of the Atlantic

    German U-Boats sank 144 ships. Allied Aircraft destroyed U-Boats

  • Neutrality act passed

  • Peacetime Draft

  • Destroyer Deal

    This gave the US access to British Naval Bases in exchange for Destroyers

  • Lend-Lease Program

    This agreement between the US and Britain allowed Britain to Lend War Materials for the period of the war.

  • Hitler invades USSR

  • Atlantic Charter Signed

    This is the umbrella in which the US got involved. Signed by Churchill and Roosevelt.

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. 8 Battleships and 2,403 people lost.

  • US Declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on US

  • Office of Price Administration is established

    Controls prices of industries, rations during WWII

  • Executive order 9066 signed

    This order allowed for the Internment of those citizens thought to be national security threats. Was upheld in 1944 supreme court hearing.

  • Japan seizes Singapore

  • US Forces in Philippines surrender to Japan

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Helped to inhibit Japanese expansion.

  • Battle of Midway

    4 carriers sunk, Helped inhibit Japanese expansion.

  • Office of War Information established

    OWI censors incoming war stories and issues propaganda.

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Between USSR and Germany

  • Battle of El Alamein

    North Africa. Pushed the Axis into the Middle East

  • Operation TORCH

    Invasion of North Africa. Helped to gain a foothold on the Mediterranean.

  • Allied forces invade Italy

  • D-Day

    Part of Operation OVERLORD. Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France to gain a foothold in Europe. At least 12,000 US casualties

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • US Takes Japanese island of Iwo Jima

  • Germany Surrenders (VE day)

  • First Atom Bomb test of Manhattan Project

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

  • Japan surrenders to US (VJ Day)