This timeline covers all
the political and military events that occurred within both North
and South America between the years 1939 and 1945.
Yesterday,
December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - The United
States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by
naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
President F.D. Roosevelt
8th December 1941
General George
Marshall
Admiral Wilhelm
Canaris
American Mk.I 'Little-Boy'
A-Bomb
Little Boy as a gun-type device in
which two masses of Uranium 235 were brought together
to create the explosive critical mass. Fusing was by means
of modified AN/APS-13 tail-warning radar sets, the device
being detonated approximately 1,900ft above the target.
