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War Production Board
The government set this up to direct the conversion of peacetime industries to industries that produced war goods. The government made companies and factories to make anything for the war. -
The Battle of Midway
The American navy sunk all of the Japane carriers, and Japan was unable to perform offensive operations in the pacific. -
North African Campaign
American Gerneral Dwight D, Eisenhower arrived in Egypt with his troops to help out the British against the Germans. They pinned the axis powers in North Africa and the Germans then about 240,000 Italians and Germans surrendered. -
Invasion of Italy
The Allies begin their invasion on the mainland of Italy. They get to controll the government of Italy, but the German troops still resist. -
D-Day
D-Day was an amphibious attack on the beaches of Normandy France. It was one of the only chances that the Allies had to take France over again and defeat the Germans. It was the largest landing by sea in history. -
Japanese suicide planes
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the first battle in which Japanese kamikazes were used. Kamikaze pilots loaded their aircraft with bombs and then purposely crashed them into enemy ships to do maximum damage. -
Germany surrenders
On April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker. Then Germany's remaining troops surrendered.The war still wasn't over until the Allies defeat Japan -
Manhattan Project
The first atomic bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico -
Atomic bombings
An American plane dropped the first atomic on Hiroshima and killed 80,000, and many had effects from the blast. 90% of the building were destroyed. 3 days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
Japan surrenders
On August 14, the government of Japan accepted the American terms for surrender. The formal surrender agreement was signed on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
