https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w en-us 2021-05-05 13:59:14 UTC 2023-01-23 03:50:20 UTC hello@padlet.com 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494537915 "Germany's Adolf Hitler signs the order for an assault on Poland. After the Germans stage a phony raid on a Gleiwitz radio station, they blame the Polish for the 'unprovoked attack.'"]]> 2021-05-05 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494537915 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494550347 "Without declaring war, Germany invades Poland. The coordinated air-and-land attack is conducted with such brutal efficiency that 'blitzkrieg' becomes a feared offensive tactic."]]> 2021-05-05 16:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494550347 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494554886 "Honoring their treaty with Poland, France and Great Britain enter the war against Germany."]]> 2021-05-05 16:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494554886 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494561567 "Japan, engaged in war with China, declares its neutrality in the European War."]]> 2021-05-05 16:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494561567 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494565349 "As war broke out in Europe, American sentiment heavily favored isolationism. With the nation still skeptical of Allied propaganda after it had lured the U.S. into the first World War, the United States declares its neutrality in the European War."]]> 2021-05-05 16:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1494565349 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495309612 "Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to German forces. Poland is partitioned by Germany and Russia."]]> 2021-05-05 18:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495309612 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495312862 "Germany invades Denmark and Norway with the first major airborne attacks on Allied forces."]]> 2021-05-05 18:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495312862 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495329895 "Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Because of the failure of his appeasement policies, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns. Forming a coalition government, Winston Churchill replaces him. Standing alone, Churchill soon began conferring with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt for aid to the British cause."]]> 2021-05-05 18:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495329895 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495333055 "Italy joins the war as an ally of Germany."]]> 2021-05-05 18:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495333055 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495339195 "The Battle of Britain begins. The air war designed to destroy the RAF and ease the German invasion opens with the Luftwaffe outnumbering its opponent in operational aircraft: 2,669-to-704."]]> 2021-05-05 18:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495339195 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495342110 "The London Blitz starts as Germany, attempting to weaken the country's resolve, bombs the British capital."]]> 2021-05-05 18:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495342110 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495348606 "The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service Act. It calls for the first peacetime draft in American history. To serve, men had to be five feet tall, weigh 105 pounds, have correctable vision and at least half their teeth."]]> 2021-05-05 18:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495348606 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495352751 "Unleashing its "Barbarossa" plan, Germany invades the Soviet Union without declaring war. Despite massing troops at the border, the Germans encounter little opposition. Hitler is now fighting a two-front war."]]> 2021-05-05 18:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495352751 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495358597 "At 7:55 AM on a Sunday, hundreds of Japanese warplanes, launched from aircraft carriers far out at sea, attack the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, based on a plan by Isoroku Yamamoto. Eight battleships, including the U.S.S. Arizona, three light cruisers, three destroyers and four other naval vessels are either sunk or damaged. One hundred-sixty-four American aircraft, mostly on the ground, are destroyed. And 2,403 Americans are killed. On the day that President Roosevelt would call 'a date which will live in infamy,' the Japanese also hit Guam, Wake Island, the Philippines, Malaya and Hong Kong."]]> 2021-05-05 18:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495358597 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495361911 "The U.S. declares war on Japan."]]> 2021-05-05 18:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495361911 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495367477 "Bataan falls. It is the largest surrender by the U.S. Army — 78,000 American and Filipino troops. What followed would be remembered as the Bataan Death March."]]> 2021-05-05 19:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495367477 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495375335 "The Battle of Midway is fought. The first defeat of the Japanese navy in 350 years is the turning point in the Pacific as the U.S. goes on the offensive. The Japanese had hoped to smash what was left of the Pacific fleet, take Hawaii, hold its people hostage and force the United States to sue for peace. But American cryptographers had deciphered their plans and the Navy was waiting for them. The Japanese would lose 3,500 men, four carriers, a cruiser and 332 aircraft. The Americans would lose 307 men, the carrier Yorktown, one destroyer and 150 aircraft."]]> 2021-05-05 19:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495375335 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495381406 "Italy accepts Allied surrender terms. German troops move to take control of the country."]]> 2021-05-05 19:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495381406 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495389781 "Italy declares war on Germany."]]> 2021-05-05 19:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495389781 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495394914 "D-Day arrives. The greatest invasion in history begins just after midnight as the first of 24,000 paratroopers -- flown over the Channel in more than 1,000 aircraft -- are dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy. More than 5,300 ships, carrying 176,000 men are streaming across the Channel. Allied commanders plan five coordinated landings along a 45-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline between the Cotentin Peninsula and the Orne River for Operation Overlord. It will be the bloodiest day in American history since the battle of Antietam in the Civil War. Some 2,500 American soldiers lay dead on French soil."]]> 2021-05-05 19:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495394914 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495400260 "After four years of Nazi occupation, Paris, the City of Light, is liberated."]]> 2021-05-05 19:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495400260 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495403487 "At the Yalta Conference, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin pledge to hold free elections after the war in Eastern Europe and divide Germany and Austria into three zones of occupation."]]> 2021-05-05 19:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495403487 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495410056 "Germany surrenders. The Reich that Hitler promised would last a thousand years had lasted less than a dozen."]]> 2021-05-05 19:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495410056 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495412678 "Developed to drop on the Germans, the first atomic bomb tumbles through the bomb-bay doors of the Enola Gay. Forty-three seconds later, six miles below but still high above the city of Hiroshima, it detonates. With a single bomb, 40,000 men, women and children are obliterated in an instant. One hundred thousand more die within days of burns and radiation. Another hundred thousand would succumb to radiation poisoning over the next five years. Despite the devastation, the Japanese still would not accept the Allied surrender terms."]]> 2021-05-05 19:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495412678 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495417513 "A second atomic bomb drops, this time on Nagasaki. Some 40,000 more civilians die instantly. In Tokyo, the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War remains split between those still determined to fight on and those willing finally to give up. That evening all six members of the Council call upon the Emperor, who breaks the deadlock."]]> 2021-05-05 19:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495417513 1387216 https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495424447 "Japan accepts unconditional surrender terms."]]> 2021-05-05 19:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1387216/5jqjrrz7eifvp77w/wish/1495424447