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Congress Instituted the Draft
The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act was authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. -
Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
The Invasion of Poland or the September Campaign was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Danzig, and a small Slavack city. -
Sitzkrieg
The Phoney War was an 8-month period at the start of World War ll, where there were no major military landing on the Western Front. -
France Fell to Germany
The German Invasion of France and Low countries during the second World War. It was the cause of the fall of Frace -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the second world war defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Airforce against an onslaught by the German Airforce. -
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
The Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2, 1940, fifty US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights from British Possesions. -
America First Committee Launched
The AFC was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. -
Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. -
Lend-Lease
The Lend-Lease policy, was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
USS Kearny Attacked
USS Kearny (DD-432), a Benson-Livermore-class destroyer, was a United States Navy warship during World War II. It was torpedoed by a German U-boat in October 1941, before the U.S. had entered the war. -
Reuben James Sank
The destroyer was sunk by a torpedo attack from German submarine U-552 -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii -
Battle of Bataan
The surrender at Bataan was the largest in American and Filipino military histories, and was the largest United States surrender since the American Civil War's Battle of Harper's Ferry. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forced transfer to Camp Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein was a major battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces and Allied Forces -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
Island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Tehran Conference
This was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill with the main outcome of it being the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany -
D-Day
D-Day was the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
MacArthur Returned to the Philippines
After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe -
FDR Elected to a 4th Term
On January 20, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term -
Yalta Conference
This was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II -
Battle of Okinawa
This invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. -
FDR Died / Harry Truman Became President
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power -
VE Day
This was a public holiday o mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Potsdam conference
This was a meeting with the goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
"Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Fat Man Dropped on Nagasaki
"Fat Man" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked celebrations over the final ending of World War II. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
