WW2 Timeline

  • The Neutrality Act of 1939

    This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.”
  • The Lend-Lease Act

    Eighty years ago, the U.S created the Lend-Lease program to provide military and humanitarian aid to Great Britain and our allies in Europe
  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. Bombs and bullets rained onto the vessels moored below.
  • The Battle of the Coral Sea

    The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia
  • The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
  • The Battle of Guadalcanal

    The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
  • The North Africa Campaign

    The North African campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria, as well as Tunisia
  • D-Day

    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 during the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
  • The Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944, when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
  • The Battle of Okinawa

    The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa.
  • The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945