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WWII Events

By Lilly Burke
  • Spanish Civil War ended

    Spanish Civil War ended

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • United States proclaims its neutrality

  • Nazis and Soviets divide Poland

    Nazis and Soviets divide Poland

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act

    President Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act

  • Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations

  • Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor

  • First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine

    First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine

  • Japanese invade Singapore

    This lasted until February 9th, 1942
  • Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Theater

    Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Theater

  • Bataan Death March begins

  • Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Aschwitz

  • First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp

    First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp

  • U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal

  • Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies

  • Allies take Tusnia

  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France

  • Unconditional surrender of the Germans to the Allied Forces

  • Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of fighting against U.S. forces

    Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of fighting against U.S. forces

  • United Nations is officially born

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