WWII Timeline: by Aldo Araujo By branham Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Sep 1, 1938 Germany invades Poland; WWII begins Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht riots across Germany Sep 16, 1940 US Congress passes first peacetime draft Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act passed Dec 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Feb 19, 1942 FDR signs Executive Order 9066 which will lead to JapaneseAmericans being sent to internment camps May 4, 1942 Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One May 15, 1942 WAACs (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) created Jun 4, 1942 American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle ofMidway Nov 8, 1942 Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa begins May 29, 1943 Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday EveningPost as a tribute to working women during the War Jun 2, 1943 The Tuskegee Airmen undertake their first combat mission Jun 6, 1944 D-Day: Allied Forces come ashore in Normandy, France Oct 26, 1944 Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes byJapan Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigidnorthern European winter Feb 4, 1945 Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet atYalta to discuss post-war Europe Feb 23, 1945 Marines raise US flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for IwoJima Apr 25, 1945 American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe Riverin Germany May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe (V-E) Day Jun 26, 1945 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Child_survivors_of_Auschwitz.jpeg Aug 6, 1945 The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshimaand Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII Nov 21, 1945 Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin
