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Events of World War II - Raney

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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German invasion of Poland

1939 ; WHEN GERMANY TOOK OVER POLAND; WAS THE BEGINNING OF WW2

Lend-Lease Act

January 10, 1941 ; THE ACT TO ALLOW THE U.S. TO ASSIST OUR ALLIES DURING WW2

Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941 ; WHEN JAPAN BOMBED A HARBOR IN HAWAII ; WHEN WE JOINED THE WAR

Battle of Midway

JUNE 4-7 1942 ; U.S. SURPRISED JAPAN AND SUNK FOUR JAPANESE CARRIER SHIPS THAT BOMBED PERAL HARBOR

Battle of Guadalcanal

August 7 1942 – February 9 1943 ; IT WAS THE FIRST MAJOR OFFENSIVE BATTLE BY JAPAN

Ally invasion on D-Day

June 6 1944 ; A DETAILED PLAN TO EXECUTE SPECIFIC MILITARY BRANCHES

YALTA CONFERENCE

February 4–11, 1945 ; MEETING THAT DISCUSSED POST WAR RECOVERY

Iwo Jima

February 19 – March 26 1945 ; A BATTLE IN WHICH THE U.S. CAPTURED THE JAPANESE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA

Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

AUGUST 6-9 1945 ; U.S. DROPPED ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPANESE ISLANDS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

Allies Capture of Berlin/German Surrender

1945 ; ALLIES INVADE BERLIN AND GERMANY SURRENDERS ; WAR IS OVER

Nuremberg Trials

NOVEMBER 20 1945, OCTOBER 1 1946 ; THE PROSECUTION OF MAIN GERMANS WHO HELPED WITH NAZI GERMANY

Tokyo Trials

1946-1948 ; THE PROSECUTION OF JAPANESE WHO HELPED WITH THE WAR