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EXPLORING CONTEXT
timeline
UNIT NINE
America and World War II
1934
Hitler denounces the Treaty of Versailles, setting the stage for annexing, reoccupying and invading Europe.
1935
The American Congress passes the first in a series of neutrality acts that initially bars the sales of weapons to warring nations and expands to limiting all trade.
1940
Roosevelt makes the Destroyer-for Bases deal with Great Britain, breaking away from the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937.
1941
Congresses passes the Lend-Lease Act (June), America extends embargo on Japan (July) Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter (August), Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
1942
Roosevelt Executive Order 9066, authorizing the establishment of “relocation” camps mainly targeting Japanese-Americans living on the west coast.
1944
Allied forces successfully gain a foothold in France after D-Day (June). General MacArthur and Allied forces take back the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf (October).
1945
Franklin Roosevelt dies while in office (April) and Harry Truman becomes the new president. Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe (May). The United States drops two atomic bombs on Japan, leading to an armistice in the Pacific (August)
- Fascism
- Axis Powers
- 1930s Europe Timeline
- Dictators: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini
- Treaty of Versailles
- Munich Crisis
- Non-Aggression Pact
- Invasion of Poland
- Blitzkrieg
- Neutrality Acts: 1933, 1936, 1937, 1939
- Destroyers for Bases
- Lend-Lease
- Fight For Freedom Committee & America First
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Germany Sets the Stage for War: Timeline Review
- Office of War Information: Propaganda
- Selective Service Act
- Propaganda Posters
- Rationing
- Wartime Factories
- Henry Kaiser
- War Bonds and Income Tax
- Tuskegee Airmen
- A. Philip Randolph and the Double V Campaign
- The Great Migration
- Executive Order 9066 and Japanese Internment
- 442nd Regiment
- Bracero Program
- Zoot Suit Riots
- Women in the Military: WACs, WAVES, WASPs
- Axis vs. Allies
- Theaters of War: Europe and Pacific
- Casablanca Conference
- Tehran Conference
- Military Leaders: Patton, Eisenhower, MacArthur
- European Theater: North Africa, Stalingrad, Invasion of Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge
- Yalta Conference
- Pacific Theater: Island Hopping, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
- Kill All Policy
- Manhattan Project
- Potsdam Conference
- Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
- Japan's Surrender
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