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WWII- A Timeline of Events
America’s Involvement in WWII By Mrs. Heyrend
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WWII Begins September 1st 1939
Germany Invades Poland
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April 9th 1940 Germany Invades Denmark and Norway
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May 10th 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands Winston Churchill becomes the Prime Minister
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July 10th 1940 The Battle of Britain Begins
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December 7th 1941 Japan attacks the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii declaring war on Britain and the United States
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American War Mobilization
War Production
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December 8th 1941 United States President, Franklin D
December 8th 1941 United States President, Franklin D. Roosevelt declares war on Axis Powers
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Women in the Military during WWII
Women worked in war production, as nurses, and in military units
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Japanese Internment Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes and into Internment Camps
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Why was WWII a significant event in History?
Student generated questions…
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December 25th 1941 Britain Surrenders Hong Kong to Japan
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African Americans- WWII
Tuskegee Airmen
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February 2, 1943 Germany’s first major defeat- Surrender at Stalingrad
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May 13th 1943 German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
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June 5th 1944 Allies enter Rome
June 27th United States captures Cherbourg
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December 16th 1944 Battle of the Bulge Begins
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February 19th 1945 United States landing on Iwo Jima
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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
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August 14th & August 15th 1945 The Japanese Surrender VJ Day
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