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Neutrality Act
Reflected hope for peace by prohibiting sale of arms. -
Germany attacks Poland
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Cash-and-Carry law
Eases the sale of arms to countries at war. -
Battle of Britain begins
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Battle of Britain ends
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Lend-Lease Act
Allowed the US to send weapons to Britain regardless of ability to pay. -
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill meet secretly to share goals. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack the naval base of Pearl Harbor. -
Interment Camps begin
Japanese-Americans were relocated to isolated western areas in the US and held for entre duratio of the war in fear of spies. -
Doolittle Raid
American bombers attacked Tokyo. -
Battle of Coral Sea
Japan's attemtped invasion of New Guinea. -
Battle of Midway
2 prong attack. Japan was defeated by the Allies. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Deadliest Battle -
Bataan Death March
Marched 65 miles. Largest US surrender. -
D-Day
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
Largest naval engagment in the Pacific. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans suprise attack the US -
Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss plans for postwar peace. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Allied victory. -
Battle of Okinawa
Bloodiest battle in the Pacific. -
VE Day
Official surrender of the German to the Allies. -
Potsdam Confrence
Meeting Between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin after war to continue the plans started the the Yalta Confrence. -
Hiroshima
1st atomic bomb dropped. -
Nagasaki
2nd atmoic bomb dropped. -
VJ Day
Official surrender of Japan. -
Nuremberg Trials Begin
The start of Nazis being tried for war crimes.
