Timeline and Terms

Events

Alien Registration Act
Atlantic Charter
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Coral Sea
Bombing of Hiroshima
Bombing of Nagasaki
Casablanca Conference
D-Day
Executive Order #9066
Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to fourth term
Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected to third term
German surrender
GI Bill
Hitler’s suicide
Japanese American internment
Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon
Japanese surrender
Lend-Lease Act
Meeting of Big Three in Yalta
Nazi blitzkrieg in Europe
Neutrality Act of 1937
Neutrality Act of 1939
Pearl Harbor attack
Potsdam Declaration
Roosevelt died; Truman became president
Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act
Soviet victory at Stalingrad
Start of World War II
Tehran Conference
US entered World War II
V-E Day

People

A. Philip Randolph
Adolf Hitler
Charles Coughlin
Charles Lindbergh
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fulgencio Batista
George S. Patton
Harry Hopkins
Harry S. Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Jeannette Rankin
John Hersey
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill

Places

Hiroshima
internment camps
Nagasaki
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor

Organizations

Axis powers
Bolsheviks
code talkers
Fair Employment Practices Commission
General Assembly (of the United Nations)
Issei
Manhattan Project
Nazi Party
Nisei
Office of War Mobilization
Security Council (of the United Nations)
United Nations
War Refugee Board