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Created by wizgrant on Feb 24, 2011

Last updated: 02/24/11 at 07:51 PM

• Nuremberg Trial
  Nov 20, 1945

  This showed people that certain crimes were not tolerated

• VJ Day
  Sep 1, 1945

  Victory over Japan

• Dropping the Atomic Bomb
  Jul 5, 1945

  Truman decides to drop the first Atomic bomb

• Battle of Iwo Jima
  Jul 1, 1945

  The capture of the Japanese island

• VE day
  May 7, 1945

  Is the day day of Victory for the Allies in WWII

• battle of the bulge
  Dec 15, 1944

  this was Adolf Hitler's last counteroffensive in the West, an attempt to break the Allied lines at the Ardennes Forest, drive a wedge between the American and British armies, capture the Belgian port of Antwerp, disrupt logistics, trap Allied forces, and perhaps achieve a negotiated peace in the West.

• Battle of Stalingrad
  Jul 16, 1942

  The armed forces of Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union, quickly advancing deep into Soviet territory.

• Battle of Midway
  Jun 3, 1942

  The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific

• Battle of Normandy
  Jun 2, 1942

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
  Dec 7, 1941

  This Day was planned for a year

• Battle of North Africa
  Jun 22, 1941

  This a struggle for control of the Suez Canal and access to oil from the Middle East and raw materials from Asia

• Churchill becomes prime Minister
  May 10, 1940

  this is boring

• Attack on Poland
  Sep 1, 1939

  Germans used Blitzkrieg during this attack

• FDR elected president
  Nov 1932

  Franklin D. Roosevelt elected