Major leaders, battles, and events from the American perspective

1. September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 World War Two

2. World War Two Begins Leaders Come to Power Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler Communist Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin Fascist Italy: Benito Mussolini Imperialist Japan: Emperor Showa Hirohito

3. United States Sticks with Isolationism

4. Hitler Begins His Expansion 1936 annex Rhineland 1938 annex Austria 1938 seize Sudetenland 1939 seize Czechoslovakia

5. Hitler’s Next Goal: Poland Left: Germany signs a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union Above: After the signing, Hitler launches a blitzkrieg on Warsaw, Poland

6. Axis Powers Allied Powers The Powers Align Nazi Germany Fascist Italy Imperialist Japan First only Great Britain and France Later the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and 45 other countries

7. Supply aid to Great Britain Set up a military draft even though not at war FDR runs for a 3rd term Above: Babe Ruth’s Draft CardFDR Chooses Neutrality

8. Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941“A date that will live in infamy”

9. Changes on the Home front Below: Mass production of airplanes Right: Rationing was considered a patriotic duty Above: “Rosie” went to work

10. Above: A family of Japanese-ancestry marked and ready to be moved into an internment camp Below: An example of the suspicion of Americans towards those of Japanese ancestry Above: A Japanese-ancestry internment camp in CaliforniaInternment of Japanese Americans

11. Battle at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union Battle at Kursk in the Soviet Union War in the Atlantic The Nazis break their non-aggression pact with the Soviets and attack Stalingrad Stalingrad would be right about here (today it is called Volgograd)

12. Battle of Normandy in France (aka D-Day) Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium War in the Atlantic

13. FDR runs for a 4th term Above: FDR’s last vice-president, Harry Truman Top Right: last meeting of Allies Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the US, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union before FDR’s death Bottom Right: Military men reading of FDR’s death

14. V-E Day: Victory in EuropeMay 8, 1945

15. Atrocities of the Holocaust Revealed6 million Jews murdered6 million Poles, Slaves, and Gypsies murdered

16. Battle at Midway Islands in the Pacific Battle at Iwo Jima a Japanese-owned Island War in the Pacific

17. Battle at Okinawa a Japanese-owned island War in the Pacific

18. The Japanese Surrender July 1945: Allies meet in Potsdam , Germany August 6, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan August 9, 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan August 14, 1945: Emperor Hirohito announces surrender

19. V-J Day: Victory in JapanSeptember 2, 1945 Right: Emperor Hirohito signing the official surrender to General Douglas MacArthur Far Right: Photo taken in Times Square, NYC on August 14, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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