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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii
ON Sunday Dec. 7th 1941, the United States was surorised by a Jpanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Causing lots of damge to the American Naval FLeet. Thea attack lasted a few hours and it was a day the will live in infamy. -
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Key American Events of WWII
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Battle of Coral Sea
It was a 4 day battle, was a major naval battle in the pacific. It was a battle between Imperial Japanese Navy and allied and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
Was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. A three day battle between United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy where the UNited states won. -
Battle of Guadacanal
It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.On August 7, 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. -
Battle of El Alamein
A 20 day Battle that ended November 11. The allies voctory was a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of WWII -
Invasion of Italy
The Allied landing on mainland Italy by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. -
Battle of the Leyte Gulf
Is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II, and was possibly the largest naval battle in history. It was fought in waters near the Philippine islands of Leyte and Samar from 23–26 October 1944, between combined US and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
Battle of the Bulge
Ended on 25 of January 1945. Allies defeated the Germans. -
The Yalta Conference
Sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, ended on February 11, 1945. 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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Ended on March 26 1945. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. Was a 82 long battle whish ended on June 22 1945. -
VE Day Victory in Europe
Was the public holiday celebrated on 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. -
Manhattan project little boy
First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by aa boeing B-29, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. -
Manhattan Project fat man
Was the atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan. It was the second bomb dropped on Japan, weighed 10,213lbs, 10,7 feet long, and five feet in diameter.
