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Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
A joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research development project that produced the nuclear weapons. -
Sitzkrieg
Sitzkrieg meaning "the sitting war" because there were no major military land operations in the west during the first 8 months of WWII. -
France Fell to Germany
After Dunkirk, Germans advance into France. France unable to defend itself and army poorly trained, civilians flee to S. France. Luftwaffe- bombing civilians.Then Germans had taken Paris. -
Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain was fought mostly in the air and because the battle lasted three months Hitler decided to postpone his invasion. -
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
Fifty mothballed Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson-class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
America First Committee Launched
America did not want to be apart of the war in Europe, so the America First Committee was launched as the largest anti- war organization. -
Congress Instituted the Draft
Men between the ages of 18-25 were required to sign for the draft to fill any space in the armed forces. -
Four Freedoms
FDR proposed four freedoms that people all over the world should enjoy. Those freedoms being; freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. -
Battle of Bataan
The battle was the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Phillippines. -
Lend-Leases
Congress allowed the U.S. to provide arms and supplies to foreign countires who needed defense or materials. -
USS Kearny Attacked
The USS Kearny was a U.S destroyer that was torpedoed by a German U-boat before the U.S entered the war. -
Reuben James Sank
The USS Reuben James was the first U.S ship to be sunk by the hostility of the war. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is the cause of the U.S deciding to join the war. -
Bataan Death March
After U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Japanese were looking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces marking the first air-sea battle in history. -
Battle of Midway
The US defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the most major confrontation 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. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
Island Hopping Campaign Begins
Also called Leapfrogging was a military strategy used by the United States. It is where forces only concentrate their resources, setting up military forces/ supplies, on strategically important islands. -
Casablanca Conference
It was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. -
Tehran Conference
It was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. -
D- Day
It was the beginning of the end for not only the Germans but Hitler most of all. D-Day forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. Yet again the Germans could not handle war on both sides of them. -
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. -
FDR Elected to a 4th Term
This was the first and only time a president has been inaugurated for a fourth term. (The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1951, limits the number of times a person can be elected President to two.) Roosevelt died 82 days into this term, and Truman succeeded to the presidency. -
Battle of the Bulge
Was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
It was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major 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. -
Battle of Okinawa
It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000
casualties for the Allies. -
FDR Died/ Harry Truman Became President
He was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
VE Day
It was a public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Potsdam Conference
It was the agreement between three of the Allies of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. It concerned the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its borders, and the entire European Theater of War territory. -
Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima
It was the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II. -
Fat Boy Dropped on Nagasaki
It was the code name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third-ever man-made nuclear explosion in history. -
VJ Day
Is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, effectively ending the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
Germany, was chosen as a site for trials against humanitythat took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
It was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for "Class A" crimes, which were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war.
