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Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb; much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States.
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Hitler's invasion of Poland (1939) led to the outbreak of World War II.
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Period of silence throughout Europe after Hitler invaded Poland.
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When Germany and Italy invade France, and France is forced to surrender since they are not well equipped.
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An aerial battle fought in World War II between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.
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This deal transferred fifty mothballed destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions
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Committee launched that argued for American neutrality and for staying out of World War II
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Required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft.
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Allies began "island hopping" during the Pacific war and would win territory back island by island and with each island, they moved closer to Japan.
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The Four Freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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American boats that were attacked by German U-boats (USS Greer and USS Kearny not sunk, USS Reuben James sunk.)
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American destroyer sunk by German U-boat, killed many American sailors -> Congress now approved a measure that would allow the US to arm its merchant vessels and sail to belligerent ports *naval war
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Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor; in response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II.
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Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers struck the Philippine island of Luzon, forcing the Americans to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula, where they held out for four months.
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Following the American surrender of the Philippines, at least 70,000 prisoners marched in the tropical heat with no food or water up the Bataan peninsula to a distant prison camp (killed over 600 Am.'s and over 10,000 Filipino prisoners).
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First time the Japanese advance was stopped, although this hurt the Americans more than the Japanese.
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Am's had broken the Jap. code; a great victory for the Allies and a devastating blow for Japan
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A 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture an industrial port city on the Volga River in the Soviet Union; one of the most deadly battles of WWII; crushing defeat for Germany
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World War II battle in which the Britain, under General Bernard Montgomery, won a decisive victory over Germany and the Afrika Korps, under Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox), in Egypt, securing the Suez Canal.
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De Gaulle, Churchill, and FDR all attended a conference in Morrocco, where the Allies demanded the unconditional surrender of the axis, agreed to aid the Soviets, agreed on the invasion Italy, and the joint leadership of the Free French by De Gaulle and Giraud.
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As Russia pushed the Germans back into Germany and reached the suburbs of Berlin, the new German government surrendered unconditionally, Americans celebrated this Victory in Europe day with ticker tape parades and dancing in the streets.
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A war time conference held at Tehran, Iran that was attended by FDR, Churchill, and Stalin; it was the first meeting of the "Big Three" and it agreed on an opening of a second front (Overlord), and that the Soviet Union should enter the war against Japan after the end of the war in Europe.
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Led by Eisenhower, over 150,000 troops stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France.
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When the Japanese took over the Philippines, U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur snuck out of the Philippines and took shelter in Australia; he left the Philippines vowing to return to liberate the islands and saying his famous quote "I Shall Return".
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FDR wins an unprecedented 4th term against Thomas E. Dewey.
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After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border; the Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses.
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FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta; Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR, and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War
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Marines landed in the Pacific in what was the largest all-Marine battle in history. It was also the bloodiest in Marine Corps history; the US suffered over 7,000 casualties. The capture of Iwo Jima greatly increased the air support and bombing operations against the Japanese home islands.
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Strategic island close to Japan to help Allies finish Japan and the war.
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The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945.
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Meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss post-WWII; compromise: each side would take reparations from its own occupation zone, divided up GER, created Council of Foreign Ministers; marked the end of wartime alliance.
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City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, which hastened the end of WWII
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Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb.
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Victory in Japan, August 1945. Japan surrender at atomic bombs are dropped, by US, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 200,000 civilians are killed.
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Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
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Most controversial event in FDR's presidency which was a reaction to anti-Japanese sentiments post Pearl Harbor.
