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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe
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The Solviet Union occupies Poland form the East
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The Neutrality Acts of 1939 allows belligerent nations to buy supplies from the United States on a cah-and-carry basis; The act favors the Allies
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"Germany attacks Western Europe (France and the low countries)
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Roosevelt tightens trade embargo against Japan; Congress passes Selective Service Act, instituting a peacetime draft
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Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the United States to give aid to the Allies
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Summer of 1941, Japanese and American diplomats try to resolve differences
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Roosevelt and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter
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October-November 1941 German U-Boats sick US Navy Ships; US merchant ships are armed and given permission to sink U-boats
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Japan attacks Pearl harbor; the US decalres war on Japan and later on Germany and Italy
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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Germany begins the mass deportations of more than 65,000 Jewish people from Lodz to the Chelmo killing center
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Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad
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Germany completes the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
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The Allies began to win the war in the North Atlantic; convoys of escort carriers protected Allied shipping
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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Allied forces invade Normandy-France
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Liberation of Paris
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The Battle of the Bulge Occurs
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in a bunker
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Germany surrenders to the Wester Allies
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V-E Day; the day that the Allied forces accepted Germany's surrender
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets
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Japan formally surrenders, ending WWII
