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Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
Japanese major tactical victory
Locations: Primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, United States
Hawaii Operation or Operation by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarter and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai -
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Key Americans Events of World War 2
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Manhattan Project - Aka Atomic Bomb 1942–1946
location: U.S, Canada, U.K.
Allied Invasion of Italy, Allied Invasion of France, Allied Invasion of Germany, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Allied Occupation of Japan
Disbanded: 15 August 1947
development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion -
Battle of Coral Sea
Key battle out in the picific against the Japanese. American and British fleets stopped the Japanese offensive on Austrilia. The Allies destroyed on carrier and damaged one other carrier along with several aircrafts. -
Battle of Midway Between 4 and 7 June 1942
Decisive American victory
Location:Midway Atoll
was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of el Alamein 1–27 July 1942
First; Location: El Alamein, Egypt; Tactical stalemate
Strategic Allied victory
Second;Location: El Alamein, Egypt; Decisive Allied victory was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Allied forcesof the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck. -
Battle of guadalcanal 12—15 November 1942
Location: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
United States strategic victory
was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II. The action consisted of combined air and sea engagements over four days, most near Guadalcanal and all related to a Japanese effort to reinforce land forces on the island. The only two U.S. Navy admirals to be killed in a surface engagement -
Invasion of Italy 3 – 16 September 1943
Location: Salerno, Calabria and Taranto, Italy
Allied victory
Following the defeat of the Axis Powers in North Africa, there was disagreement between the Allies as to what the next step should be.General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. -
Operation overlord - Aka D-Day 6 June – 25 August 1944
Location: Normandy, France
Decisive Allied victory
was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels.Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Battle of leyte Gulf 23–26 October 1944
Location:Leyte Gulf, The Philippines
Decisive Allied victory
also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history. between combined US and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
Battle of the Bulge 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945
Location: The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Nazi Germany
Results: Decisive Allied victory, German operational failure was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II -
The yalta conference February 4–11, 1945,
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Battle of Okinawa 1 April – 22 June 1945
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Allied
was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender just weeks after the end of the fighting at Okinawa. -
V.E Day - Victory in Europe 8 May 1945
to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe.the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz.
