WWII Timeline (Sam) By branham May 4, 1442 Office of Price Administration issues Ration Book One May 14, 1442 WAACs (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) created Period: Jun 4, 1442 to Jun 7, 1442 American naval forces defeat the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway Nov 8, 1442 Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa begins May 19, 1443 “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post as a tribute to working women during the War Jun 2, 1443 The Tuskegee Airmen undertake their first combat mission Jun 4, 1444 D-Day: Allied Forces come ashore in Normandy, France Oct 26, 1444 Japanese navy defeated at Leyte Gulf; first use of Kamikazes by Japan Dec 16, 1444 Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive, begins in a frigid northern European winter Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht riots across Germany Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland; WWII begins 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 Japanese Americans being sent to internment camps Jan 26, 1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz 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 the battle for Iwo Jima Apr 25, 1945 American forces meet up with their Russian allies at the Elbe River in Germany May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe (V-E) Day Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 9, 1945 The US drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan signs the surrender agreement, officially ending WWII Nov 21, 1945 Nuremberg War Crimes Trials of Nazi leaders begin E
