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Japanese soldiers have just bombed Pearl Harbor. The whole country is in shock.
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US declared war. Japan is a part of the alliance of Axis and so war on Japan means war with Axis. Germany and Italy are a part of Axis. The United States responds in declaring war with the Axis powers.
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Between the Japanese and the United States and Australia. First fleet action where aircraft carriers engaged each other making it the first naval battle in history where neither side fired or sighted directly upon each other. A major Naval battle in the Pacific.
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Allied merchant ships were sunk by German U-boats.
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The Allied forces launched a combined attack upon Sicily by the sea, land and air with over half a million troops during the night of July ninth, eventually taking the area 38 days later after an indecisive but successfull campaign.
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major turning point of World War II, particularly in Europe. Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable to mass sufficient men and material to risk an attack in northern Europe.
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After winning at Iwo Jima, marines raised the flag atop of Mt. Suribachi.
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Truman the 33rd president. He decided to use the Atomic Bomb. He was concerned about it's possible effects, but feared the cost of invading Japan. Two bombs were dropped, one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki, and the Japanese surrendered.
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The thirtieth he shook the hands of his staff. Hitler poisoned and shot himself.
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United States had dropped an entirely new type of bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima -- an "atomic bomb." Truman warned that if Japan still refused to surrender unconditionally, as demanded by the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, the United States would attack additional targets with equally devastating results. Two days later, on August 8, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
