WWII timeline by Haley Claus By branham Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Adolf hitler becomes chancellor of germany Nov 19, 1938 Kristollnacht Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades poland 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 off for Japanese americans being sent to internment camps May 4, 1942 Office of Price administration issues of Radiation book one May 15, 1942 WAAC´s created Jun 7, 1942 american naval forces defeat the japanese navy at the battle of midway Nov 8, 1942 Operation torch, the allied invasion of north america May 29, 1943 rosie the riveter is created Jun 2, 1943 the tuskegee airmen undertake their first combat mission Oct 26, 1944 Japanese navy defeated at leyte gulf Dec 16, 1944 battle of the bulge Jan 25, 1945 Soviet troops liberated auchuitz death camp Feb 4, 1945 Winston churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and joseph stalin meet at yalta to discuss post war europe Feb 23, 1945 Marines raise US flag on Mt. suribachi during battle for iwo jima Apr 25, 1945 American forces meet up with russian allies May 8, 1945 Victory in europe (V-E) Day Aug 6, 1945 The US drops atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki Sep 20, 1945 japan signs the surrender agreement, ending ww2 Nov 21, 1945 Nuremburg war crime trials of nazi leaders begin Jun 19, 1994 D day allied forces come ashore normandy france
