Must create a timeline from 1941 to 1945- 3 bullet points each year- complete sentences

1. WWII HOME FRONT TIMELINE
1941
•In July, UnitedStates
War Department
opens theTuskegee
Army Air Field and
the it firstU.S. Air
Force facility to train
black servicemen to
be fighter pilots.
•On December 7,
1941, Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor and
killed more than
2,300 Americans
•United States
declares war on
Japan onDecember
8th.
1942
•On Feburary 19th,
ExceutiveOrder
9066 was passed
allowing the
internmentcamps
for the Japanese.
•In June, Little Tokyo,
U.S.A., a film in
which Japanese
Americans are
portrayed as a "vast
army ofvolunteer
spies."
• On December10th,
The War Relocation
Authority
establishes a prison
in Moab, Utahfor
resistant Japanese
internmentcamp
inmates.
1943
•On Febuary 20th,
Norman Rockwell's
Freedom ofSpeech
painting appears in
The Saturday
Evening Post,
illustrating oneof
PresidentFranklinD.
Roosevelt's "Four
Freedoms."
•May 29th,
Rockwell's imageof
"Rosie the Riveter"
gained much
attention.
•On June 21st, The
United States
Supreme Court
upholds wartime
curfew and
exclusionorders
affecting Japanese
Americans.
1944
•What The Negro
Wants is published
calling for an end to
segregation, for
voting rights in the
South, unionism,
and for a solutionto
the problems of
poverty, lynching,
and imperialism
•Ironicallyon January
15th, the
governmentdeems
first-generation
Japanese Americans
eligiblefor the
military draft.
•On June 6th, Allied
soldiers invades
France, initiating a
German retreat,also
known as D-Day.
1945
•On April 12th,
PresidentRoosevelt
dies of a cerebral
hemorrhage.
•On May 2nd,
Germany
surrenders, and
offically ending the
war in Europe
•On August 6th, the
United States drops
the atomic bombin
Hiroshima, killing
75,000 peopleinan
instant.