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On Sunday Dec. 7th1941, the United State was suprised by a Japanese attack at Pearl Habor. 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"
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The Battle of the Coral Sea a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States
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The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war.
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The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two. The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of World War Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943.
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Conceived by Admiral Ernest King, Commander-in-Chief, US Fleet, Operation Watchtower called for Allied troops to land in the Solomon Islands at Tulagi, Gavutu–Tanambogo, and Guadalcanal. Such an operation would protect the Allied lines of communication to Australia and allow for the capture of a Japanese airfield then under construction at Lunga Point, Guadalcanal.
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The Invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the war.
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D-Day, also known as Normandy landings, for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies was originally set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather and heavy seas caused Gen. Dwight D Eisenhowerto delay until June 6 and that date has been popularly referred to ever since by the short title "D-Day".
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Allied leaders elected to begin operations to liberate the Philippines. The initial landings were to take place on the island of Leyte, with ground forces commanded by General Douglas MacArthur.
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Its objective was to split the Allied armies by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp, marking a repeat of what the Germans had done three times previously--in September 1870, August 1914, and May 1940.
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Conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
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Iwo Jima was strategically important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan.
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On this day the Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany.
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The largest amphibious assault in the pacific. Also it lead to mass suicide when civilians were told by Japanese soldier told them that American soldiers would go on a rampage of killing and raping.
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"Little Boy" was the codename for the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan. It was dropped on the town Hiroshima in an attempt stop Japan
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This was the code name for the second atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan.
