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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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The Phoney War refers to an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front
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Sitzkrieg met an abrupt end on 10 May 1940, when Germany launched an invasion of France and the Low Countries.
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Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force.
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America First Committee, founded in September 1940, was the most powerful isolationist group in America before the United States entered World War II. It had over 800,000 members, who wanted to keep America neutral.
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In the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom and US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy fin exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
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Goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt ,he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech.
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Allowed military aid to Britain, Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.
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The destroyer USS Kearny was hit by a German torpedo but survived and eleven crew members were killed and 22 injured in the attack.
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The Reuben James was sunk on October 31, 1941, over a month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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"a date which will live in infamy." Signal for America to enter WW2
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Represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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Manhattan Project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York
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Forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of Filipino and American prisoners of war .
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Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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Island Hopping' campaign was strategy was to capture the Pacific islands one by one, advancing towards Japan and bypassing and isolating centres of resistance.
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Crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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Major battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) of the Panzer Army Africa
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Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco
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Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, where they discussed military strategy against germany
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156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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After a hard fought campaign in the Phillipines, MacArthur declated he would return to Philipinno soil one day.
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Roosevelt rose above personal and political challenges to emerge as one of the nation’s most revered and influential presidents and was elected tp his unprecedented fourth term on nov 7th, 1944
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Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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Meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
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Major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.
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President Roosevelt passes away leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge while the country is still engaged in ww2
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Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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nickname for atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima .
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codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States
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On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany,
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In Tokyo, Japan, begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
