WW2 Events Timeline

Battle of Britain

Sep 7, 1940

In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.

F.D.R's death

Apr 12, 1945

Died of a cerebral hemorrhage

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War 2, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.