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An invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War ll
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The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Organized to oppose America`s potential intervention in World War II.
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Fifty Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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The Burke-Wadsworth Act is passed by Congress, by wide margins in both houses, and the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States is imposed.
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This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
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the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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a Benson-Livermore-class destroyer, was a United States Navy warship during World War II. She was noted for being torpedoed by a German U-boat. She survived that attack, and later served in North Africa and the Mediterranean
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a post-World War I, four-funnel Clemson-class destroyer—was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II
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The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day.
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The battle represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war
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a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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After the Battle of Midway, the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control.
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The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
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the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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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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Planned the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran
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the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War Il.
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That day, he made a radio broadcast in which he declared, “People of the Philippines, I have returned!”
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The election took place during World War II. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term.
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the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as "Little Boy", a uranium gun-type bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force.
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was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world
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was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
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was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president.
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held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany
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It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, the first being Little Boy, and its detonation marked the third nuclear explosion in history.
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end
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a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
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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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In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
