Major Events

Chapter 35 · 1941–1945

FDR issues Executive Order 8802 banning defense-industry discrimination

1941 (June)

War Production Board coordinates the wartime economy

1942 (Jan)

Executive Order 9066: Japanese American internment ordered

1942 (Feb)

Battle of Midway turns the tide in the Pacific

1942 (June)

Allied invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch)

1942 (Nov)

Korematsu v. United States upholds internment

1944

D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1944 (June 6)

Battle of the Bulge

1944-45 (Dec-Jan)

Yalta Conference plans the postwar order

1945 (Feb)

FDR dies; Truman becomes president

1945 (Apr 12)

Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

1945 (Feb-June)

V-E Day: Germany surrenders

1945 (May 8)

Atomic bombs dropped; Japan surrenders (V-J Day)

1945 (Aug-Sept)