1940s time line project

By Cmysel
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii has on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States entry into World War 2.
  • White rose movement

    White rose movement
    The White Rose was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany led by a group of students at the University of Munich. The group conducted an anonymous rallys which called for active opposition to the Nazi regime.
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
    The Battle of Iwo Jima was a large battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
  • Okinawa

    Okinawa
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
  • Red scare

    Red scare
    A Red Scare is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state. The First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The Cold War was fought from 1947 to 1953. This period time was within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953. The Cold War emerged in Europe a few years after the USSR won World War II in Europe.
  • Dick button wins gold at olympics

    Dick button wins gold at olympics
  • Samuel L Jackson is born

    Samuel L Jackson is born
  • NATO

    NATO
  • The Barkley’s of Broadway

    The Barkley’s of Broadway
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Warsaw Pact was a Treaty of Friendship signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven other states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.