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Battle of the Atlantic
A contest between the Western Allies and the Axis powers (particularly Germany) for the control of Atlantic sea routes. It began on September 3,1939 and lasted till May 8,1945. The outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies—the German blockade failed—but at great cost: 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships were sunk for the loss of 783 U-boats. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Japanese Internment
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Government issued executive order 9066, which empowered the military to round up anyone of Japanese ancestry and place them in internment camps. It was a forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.Beginning on February 19, 1942 this internment lasted till March 20,1946. -
Struma Disaster
The Struma disaster was the sinking of a ship, MV Struma, that had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only 240 GRT that had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner but had recently been re-engined with an unreliable second-hand diesel engine. Struma was only 148.4 ft long, had a beam of only 19.3 ft and a draught of only 9.9 ft but an estimated 791 refugees and 10 crew were crammed into her. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War. The battle is historically significant as the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front which took place on December 16, 1944 and lasted till January 25, 1945 The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces, and they were largely unable to replace them. -
The Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and flammable devices on the city. The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed over 1,600 acres of the city centre and killed 25,000 people. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. The trials were notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of German Nazis, who planned and participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg and their decisions marked a turning point between classical and contemporary international law. -
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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Battle of Britain
