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Germany invaded Poland with the intent to make it a territory.
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Period at the beginning of WWII where only one military operation on land was done on the western front.
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After the Nazi launched their invasion of Western Europe, French signed an armistice with Nazi Germany after six weeks.
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This is when German and British air-forces conducted the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
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Britain was able to acquire 50 US naval destroyers in exchange for the use of the naval and air bases in British possessions.
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This committee formed to warn Americans about getting involved in a second Europe conflict
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America enacted the Selective Training and Service Act, which made all men between 21-45 to register for the draft.
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FDR proposed lending money to Britain and justified it because it was in defense of freedom of speech, religion, from want, and from fear.
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This ended the Cash and Carry Act, allowed British to obtain US arms needed on credit.
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This ship was torpedoed by a German boat near Greenland, it did not sink.
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The USS Reuben James was sunk by Germans, 115 men died.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was bombed by Japan, killing 2,400 Americans killed.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was bombed by Japan, it killed 2,400 Americans killed.
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Japan attacked Allied forces at the Bataan Peninsula, located in the Philippines.
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Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps.
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American fleet responded to Japanese force that had been planning to take over Port Moresby in New Guinea.
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United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and its naval pilots.
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Russia was successful from the attack by German at Stalingrad, Russia.
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This battle marked the climax of North African campaign between British Empire and the German-Italian army, the Allies won.
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Led by Oppenheimer, this project employed 100,000 people and spent over 2 billion to develop the atomic bomb.
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FDR and Churchill met and planned future global military strategy for the western Allies.
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Naval commanders strategy where they bypassed strongly-held Japanese Islands and isolated them with air/naval power.
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The Big 3 met and agreed that Britain and American would start a campaign to liberate France and that Soviets would invade Germany and join war against Japan.
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Britain, Canada, and America secured several beachheads on the Normandy Coast.
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General MacArthur went to Philippine island of Leyte and announced publicly that he returned to the Philippines.
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Germans launched the major offensive attack of the war as an attempt to push them Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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During WWII, FDR was elected president by defeating Republican Dewey.
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Big 3 met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.
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American soldiers conduct a strike on Japanese Home Island, Iwo Jima, because of the need for a base near the Japanese coast.
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Vice president Harry S. Truman came to presidency after FDR died due to health complications.
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The U.S. Navy and Marine corps went to the island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan.
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A public holiday which celebrated the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany's surrender of its military.
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Stalin, Truman, and Clement agreed to issue a warning to Japan to surrender and to hold war crime trials on Nazi leaders.
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The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States Army Air Forces.
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Three days after Hiroshima, a second atomic was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by America.
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The where it was publicly announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II.
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Judges from the Allied powers presided over the hearings of twenty two major Nazi criminals.
