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U.S President FDR sent letters to Adolf Hitler seeking peace
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During Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), Jewish businesses are looted, synagogues are set afire, Jews are killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps
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This was the act that started World War II
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The Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe
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The French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe
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Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a deal to give Great Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for naval bases.
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Japanese planes attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Caused United States to join the war.
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Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Axis forces in North Africa, having sustained 40,000 casualties in Tunisia alone, surrendered; 267,000 German and Italian soldiers became prisoners of war.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.
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Last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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They captured Iwo Jima because of their overwhelming number of arms and men, which made it costly.
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FDR had a cerebral hemorrhage and died suddenly.
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Known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II
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He shot himself because he knew the Nazis were going to lose the war.
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The end of World War II in Europe, also called V-E Day. The Nazis surrendered.
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First US attack on Japan.
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Second US attack on Japan. Caused Japan to surrender the war.
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On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II. But formally surrendered on September 2, 1945
