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The act provided for the first peacetime draft in American history. This selective service act required that men in their twenties and thirties register with local draft boards.
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Suprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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The U.S. declares war with Japan, entering World War II.
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Germany and Italy, Japan's allies, side with Japan and officially declare war on the U.S.
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The U.S. Navy sinks four Japanese aircraft carriers in e fight that proves to be the turning point in the Pacific War.
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Germany's entire Sixth Army is lost, and the war begins turning in favor of the allies.
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The American and British invasion of France.
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The Allied Expeditionary Force under Dwight Eisenhower lands on the coast of Northern France on what will later be called D-Day. The "Second Front" that Stalin has been demanding fro three years is now open.
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Hilter commits suicide, shortly before the fall of Berlin and surrender of German forces in Europe.
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The U.S. develops the atomic bomb and successfully uses it in August to force the surrender of Japan.
