WWII By facebooker_100000059524954 Sep 1, 1939 Nazi's Invade Poland WWII Begins Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Aug 15, 1945 WWII Jun 22, 1940 Fall of France to Germany Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Begins Sep 5, 1940 United States passes Neutrality Act Dec 29, 1940 Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" Speech Mar 11, 1941 Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act Jul 26, 1941 Roosevelt suspends relationships with Japan Aug 12, 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter Aug 28, 1941 Office if Price Administration created Sep 4, 1941 German Submarines fire on US Destroyer Greer Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 US and Britain Declare war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Germany declares war on US Jan 12, 1942 National War Labor Board reestablished Jan 16, 1942 War Production Board established Apr 1, 1942 Japanese Americans in US sent to relocation centers Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Jun 20, 1942 Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz Mar 16, 1943 Battle of Atlantic Jun 6, 1944 D-day Landings Jun 22, 1944 GI Bill of Rights Passed Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge Dec 18, 1944 Korematsu v. United States decided Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Feb 19, 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima Mar 8, 1945 V-E Apr 1, 1945 Battle of Okinawa Apr 12, 1945 Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president Aug 6, 1945 First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 15, 1945 V-J
