Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan
President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act
Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis
Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations
Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine
Japanese invade Singapore
This event actually happened from February 8th to February 9th, not just on the 8th.
Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater.
Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths.
Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz
This event actually happened during a point in June of 1942, not specifically on June 1st, 1942.
First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps
U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal.
Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. Forces
Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
Allies take Tunisia
Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland
D-Day landings on the northern coast of France
Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied forces
