WWII A Timeline of Events Americas Involvement in

WWII- A Timeline of Events America’s Involvement in WWII By Mrs. Heyrend

WWII Begins September 1 st 1939 • Germany Invades Poland

April th 9 1940 Germany Invades Denmark and Norway

May 10 th 1940 • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands • Winston Churchill becomes the Prime Minister

July 10 th 1940 The Battle of Britain Begins

December 7 th 1941 • Japan attacks the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii declaring war on Britain and the United States

American War Mobilization • War Production

December th 8 1941 United States President, Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war on Axis Powers

Women in the Military during WWII • Women worked in war production, as nurses, and in military units

Japanese Internment • Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes and into Internment Camps

Why was WWII a significant event in History? Student generated questions…

December 25 th 1941 • Britain Surrenders Hong Kong to Japan

African Americans- WWII • Tuskegee Airmen

February 2, 1943 Germany’s first major defeat- Surrender at Stalingrad

May 13 th 1943 • German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

June 5 th 1944 • Allies enter Rome • June 27 th 1944 - United States captures Cherbourg

December 16 th 1944 • Battle of the Bulge Begins

February 19 th 1945 • United States landing on Iwo Jima

August 1945 • August 6 th- The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima • August 8 th- Russia declares war on Japan • August 9 th- The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

August 14 th & August 15 th 1945 • The Japanese Surrender • VJ Day