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

2. WWII Begins September 1st 1939
Germany Invades Poland

3. April 9th 1940 Germany Invades Denmark and Norway

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

5. July 10th 1940 The Battle of Britain Begins

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

7. American War Mobilization
War Production

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

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

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

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

12. December 25th 1941
Britain Surrenders Hong Kong to Japan

13. African Americans- WWII
Tuskegee Airmen

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

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

16. June 5th 1944 Allies enter Rome
June 27th United States captures Cherbourg

17. December 16th 1944
Battle of the Bulge Begins

18. February 19th 1945
United States landing on Iwo Jima

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

20. August 14th & August 15th 1945
The Japanese Surrender
VJ Day