Topic 7

• APRIL 1: First Census that said we have 132,164,569 people living in America
• JUNE 3: United States Government approves the sale of surplus war materials to Great Britain including 5 B-17 War Planes
• JUNE 14: FDR signs naval expansion act that increases production by 11%
• JUNE 14: Paris falls to Germany
• JUNE 14: Auschwitz receives first Polish prisoners
• SEPTEMBER 2: The Great Smokey Mountain National Park is dedicated by FDR
• SEPTEMBER 16: US Congress approves and enacts the Peace-Time conscription draft
• NOVEMBER 5: FDR dominates his 3rd Presidential Election by getting 449 electoral college votes; Wendell Willkie gets 82 electoral college votes
• MARCH 11: George Washington Carver Museum is going to be dedicated at the Tuskegee Institute (considered a Historic Site under new deal)
• MARCH 11: Lend-Lease Act is approved that approved 7 billion dollars so American can make war supplies for Britain
• JULY 7: US occupies Iceland to take over defense from Great Britain so they can stop an invasion from Germany
• AUGUST 14: The Atlantic Charter is an 8-point declaration of principles created by Winston Churchill and FDR; It sets goals for America and Britain and its post-war world
• DECEMBER 7: 8am – Hawaii – Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Japanese fighter planes launched a surprise attack on the U.S.
  • Destroyed 21 Naval ships
  • Killed 1,177 sailors and marines
• DECEMBER 8: US declares War on Japan and enters war officially
• DECEMBER 11: US declares war on Germany and Italy
• February 19: Executive order 9066 is signed by FDR


  • Put 110.000 Japanese Americans in relocation camps and would stay there for 3 years
  • Remainders of those camps are at California's Manzanar and is a National Historic Site
• June 4-7: Battle of Midway


  • Fought at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean
  • Japanese fleet is defeated by United States Military for the first major time ever on American soil in 128 years
  • Invade a territory by America – Aleutian Islands
• JUNE 20: Development Agreement of the first Atomic Bomb that is signed by Winston Churchill and FDR in Hyde Park, NY
• AUGUST 7: US Marines are going to land in Guadalcanal

  • In the Solomon Islands close to Australia
  • The battle lasted for 3 days and the US Won
• NOVEMBER 8: US and Great Britain invades North Africa (they have done nothing wrong; friendly)
• DECEMBER 2: First Nuclear Chain Reaction is Produced at University of Chicago used for Manhattan Project

  • Created fission of Uranium 235
• FEBRUARY 14: The US will receive its first major defeat of WWI called Battle of Kasserine Pass


  • Location is Tunisia, North Africa
  • US troops are inexperienced and lose many people
• APRIL 13: Jefferson Memorial is dedicated

  • Significant because it is the 200th anniversary of his birth
• JULY 10: US Army's 45th Infantry Division starts the Allies Forces Invasion into Axis-Controlled Europe in Sicily (Germany, Italy, Japan)
• NOVEMBER 28: Tehran Conference begins

  • Results in agreement between FDR, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin that said they would invade Europe in June 1944
• JUNE 6: Normandy Invasion (D-Day) is where 155,000 Allied Troops land in France that will result in the liberation of Paris
• JUNE 22: GI Bill of Rights provided benefits for veterans
• JULY 17: Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station Explosion occurs (Port Chicago Disaster)

  • killed 320 people
• JULY 21: The US Military begins to retake Guam

  • To get rid of Japanese troops that are occupying Guam
• NOVEMBER 6: FDR will give his final campaign speech (4th consecutive term)
• NOVEMBER 7: FDR will serve his 4th consecutive term with 432 electoral college votes
• DECEMBER 18: Korematsu v. The United States will reach a ruling on Relocation Camps about Japanese-AMERICAN citizens

  • US says that the relocation camps for Japanese-Americans are valid and won the case
• FEBRUARY 4-11: Yalta Conference begins in Soviet Union to discuss the terms of the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan
• FEBRUARY 19: US is going to land in Iwo Jima with 30,000 US Marines

  • Japanese deaths were 3x American deaths
• MARCH 1: American troops cross Rhine River (Remagen, Germany) to bring them closer to Berlin
• MARCH 18: 1,250 US Bombers are going to attack Berlin

  • Hitler is forced to announce that his bases have been destroyed
• APRIL 1: American troops invade Okinawa that leads to the Battle of Okinawa
• APRIL 12: FDR passes away from a stroke that was a result of his polio

  • Harry Truman is now sworn in as President and now Commander-in-Chief of WWII for the United States
• MAY 7: Germany surrenders unconditionally in Reims, France
• JULY 16: First Atomic Bomb is going to explode during the Trinity Test at a Testing site in Alamogordo Army Air Base in New Mexico