WW 2 by Nikkole Vanderwege By branham Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of germany Nov 9, 1938 kristallnacht riots across germany Sep 1, 1939 germant invades poland, WW 2 begins Sep 16, 1940 US congress passes first peacetime draft Mar 11, 1941 lend-lease act passed Dec 7, 1941 japanese attack on pearl harbor Feb 19, 1942 FDR signs executive order 9066 which will lead to americans being interment camps May 4, 1942 office of price adminitstraion issues ration book one Jun 4, 1942 american naval defeat the japense navy at the battle of midway Nov 8, 1942 operation torch, the allied invasion of north africa begins May 29, 1943 rosie the riviter appears of the cover of the saturday evening post as a tribute to working women during the war Jun 2, 1943 the tuskegee airmen undertake their first combat mission Jun 6, 1944 D day: allied forces come ashore in normany, france Oct 20, 1944 japanese navy defeated at Leyete gulf, first use first use of kamikazis by japan Dec 16, 1944 battle of the bulge, the last german offensive, begins in a frigid northern european winter Jan 26, 1945 soviet troops liberate aushwitz concentrantion camp Feb 19, 1945 winston churchill, franklin rosevelt, and joseph stalin met at yalta to discuss post euro war Feb 23, 1945 marines raise US flag on Mt. siribachi during the battle for iwo jima Apr 25, 1945 american forces meet up with their russian allies at the elbe river in germany May 8, 1945 victory in europe day Aug 6, 1945 the US drops atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 japan signs the surender agreement, ofically ending world war 2 Nov 21, 1945 nurember war crimes trials of nazi soldiers begin Apr 13, 2016 WAACs created
