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The first act prohibited the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States. This was the first of many Neutrality Acts that were passed.
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Thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were damaged and 100 Jews were killed.
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Germany invaded Poland which offically started WWII.
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After they declare war on Germany, they are formally known as the Allies.
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After he was elected again, he passed the Lend-Lease Act.
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This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation that was part of the Allies.
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This occured after Japan took control of French Indochina with permission of the French Vichy government.
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Japan plans two fleets of surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor.
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This order gave the armed forces the power to force people or groups to leave certain zones in America.
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Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
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16 American bombers attacked Tokyo, but didn't do any major damage to Japan.
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The Allied powers took Sicily from the Axis powers.
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Major industrialized center in the Volga River where an estimated total of 250,000 Axis forces were trapped.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front. Hitler would not give up!
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Offical date of Nazi Germany's surrender.
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This was a high speed transit from California to Tinian to deliver atomic bomb components. It was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-58 and sank in about 12 minutes.
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80,000 Japanese people were killed.
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Held on the USS Missouri, Japan surrendered which thereby ended the hostilities.
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The Nazis were tried for their crimes against humanity/war crimes.
