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Major naval battle in the Pacific between the Americans and the Japanese. The Americans managed to sink four Japanese carriers and turn the tide of the Pacific war.
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Surrounded at Stalingrad, the German sixth army surrendered to the Russians and lost 200,000 men.This marked the end of Germany's successes in the eastern front.
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D-Day was the beginning of the allied invasion of mainland Europe. On the morning of June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of allied troops swarmed the beaches and established a foothold in Normandy.
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After the Russians reached Berlin and Hitlers accompanying suicide, Germany surrendered to the allies marking the end of the war in Europe.
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After the US dropped nuclear warheads on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan sued for peace. On September 2, 1942, Japanese high officials signed the peace treaty aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo bay.
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The Truman Doctrine aimed to limit Communist geopolitical expansion. Heightened the start of the Cold War.
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The USSR developed and successfully tested its first nuclear bomb. This marked the beginning of the nuclear arms race between the US and USSR.
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Communist North Korea invade the Democratic South Korea. The UN and the United States, in a rush to stop communism, sent troops to block the expansion.
