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pear harbor
on sunday dec.7th, 1941, the united states was suprised by a japanese attack at pearl harbor. causing lot's of damage to the american nava fleet. the attack lasted a few hours and its a day that will live "in infamy" -
the manhattan project ( AKA Atomic bomb)
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
battle of coral sea
it was a four battle from may, 4 through may, 8 1942 between the japanese and the U.S.
The battle of the coral sea was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other -
battle of midway
The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific.
the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. -
battle of el alamain
there was two battles this battle happened in egypt -
battle of guadalacanal
When Japanese troops arrived on Guadalcanal on June 8, 1942, to construct an air base, and then American marines landed two months later to take it away from them, few people outside of the South Pacific had ever heard of that 2,500-square-mile speck of jungle in the Solomon Islands. But the ensuing six-month Guadalcanal campaign proved to be the turning point of the Pacific war -
invasion of italy
the longest campaign by the Western allies.
Following Italy's surrender in July 1943, Josef Stalin demanded opening a second campaing -
operation over lord (d-day)
Operation Overlord 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. -
battle of leyte gulf
Decisive air and sea battle of World War II that gave the Allies control of the Pacific -
battle of the bulge
n World War II, the last German offensive on the Western Front, an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany -
the yalta conference
Conference of Allied leaders at Yalta to plan Germany's defeat in World War II. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin discussed the postwar occupation of Germany, postwar assistance to the German people, German disarmament, war-crimes trials, the fate of the defeated or liberated states of eastern Europe, voting in the future United Nations Security Council, and German reparations. -
battle of iwo jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
battle of akinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg,[3] was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
V.E Day victory in europe
known as V-E Day or VE Day — was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 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 -
little boy
"Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. -
fat man
"Fat Man" was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion.
