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TIMELINE – WW II AUG. 23, 1939 – Nonagression Pact: 10 yr.; divide Poland; USSR would get Baltic states and Finland Sept. 1, 1939 – Hitler invaded Poland with blitzkrieg Sept. 17, 1939 – Stalin invaded eastern Poland and then Fall – 1939 – Stalin annexed Baltic states; invaded Finland Sept. 1939 – US passed the Burke-Wadsworth Act (first peacetime military draft) March, 1940 – Finland surrendered to Stalin April 9, 1940 – Hitler invaded Norway and Denmark May 1940 – Hitler invaded Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg; Hitler invaded France May 26 – June 4 – Rescue at Dunkirk June 1940 – Charles de Gaulle fled France and est. a gov’t. in exile June 22, 1940 – France surrendered Summer of 1940 – Battle of Britain (continued until May 1941); Winston Churchill rallied the Brits Aug. 1940 – US became aware of Japan’s plans to take SE Asian colonies from Europe Sept. 1940 – June 1942 – Allied and Axis powers fight in North Africa; victories go back and forth Early 1941 – Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary joined the Axis powers March 1941 – US passed Lend-Lease Act April 1941 – Yugoslavia and then Greece fell to Hitler June 22, 1941 – Operation Barbarossa (Hitler’s invasion of USSR) began – violation of Non-Agression Pact - nullified June 1941 – March 1943 >> Leningrad and Moscow refused to surrender – Hitler’s troops suffered through Russian winter; retreating Soviet troops used “scorched earth policy” July 1941 – Japan took French Indochine (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos); FDR cut off oil supplies to Japan Aug. 9, 1941 – Atlantic Charter (upheld free trade and self-determination) Sept. 4, 1941 – German U-boat fired on US destroyer >> US now in undeclared naval war w/ Germany Dec. 7, 1941 – Japan attacked Pearl Harbor under leadership of Isoroku Yamamoto (2400 Americans killed; 1000+ wounded) Dec. 8, 1941 – US declared war on Japan Jan. 1942 – Japan took the Philippines Jan. – March 1942 – Japan took Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, Dutch East Indies, Philippines, Burma TIDE TURNS May 1942 – Battle of Coral Sea June 1942 – Battle of Midway; General Douglas MacArthur used the “island-hopping” strategy Oct. 1942 – Battle of El Alamein – Montgomery defeated Rommel in North Africa; Rommel fled west Nov. 1942 – Operation Torch – Eisenhower / Montgomery defeated Rommel Jan. 1943 – Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca (Morocco) Feb. 2, 1943 – Battle of Stalingrad (started in June 1942) Feb. 1943 – Battle of Guadalcanal July 1943 – Allied forces invade Sicily July 25, 1943 – King Victor Emmanuel has Mussolini arrested; Mussolini put back in power by Germans Sept. 3, 1943 – Italy surrendered (but fighting continues in the North) June 6, 1944 – D-Day invasion Oct. 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf – Allied victory despite heavy kamikaze pilots Dec. 1944 – Battle of the Bulge Feb. 1945 – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta March 1945 – Battle of Iwo Jima April 12, 1945 – President FDRoosevelt died; Truman becomes President May 8,1945 – Germany’s surrender officially signed – V-E Day June 1945 – Battle of Okinawa Formation of the UN (United Nations) July 25, 1945 – Pottsdam Declaration Aug. 6 – US dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima Aug. 9 – US dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki Sept. 2 – official surrender of Japanese to the US – V-J Day 1946 – Nuremberg Trials 1945 – 1950 US occupation of Japan