1940-1950

  • auschwitz opens

  • FDR elected to a third presidential term

  • german battleship Bismarck sinks HMS Hood

  • Ho Chi minh founds the communist viet Minh in Vietnam

  • Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

  • Mount Rushmore Completed

  • anne frank goes into hiding

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Japanese Americans held in camps

  • French Resistance leader Jean Moulin killed

  • Italy joins the Allies

  • warsaw ghetto uprising

  • D- DAY

  • hitler escapes assassination attempt

  • Hitler commits suicide or did he??

  • FDR passes away

  • first atomic bomb tested

  • Nuremberg trials begin

  • United states drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • China becomes communist