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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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 Naval Fleet. The attack lasted a few hours and it was day that will "live in infamy." -
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Key American Events of WWII
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Battle of Coral Sea
Was a major four day Naval Battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperail Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the Unitied States. -
Battle of El Alamein
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942. The Battles occured in Eygpt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Was a Military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadlcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on Italy on September 3rd by General Harold Alexander's 15 army group and Leiutenant General Mark Clark's U.S fifth army during the second world war -
Operation Overload
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
Also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea" is considered to be the largest naval battle of World War -
Battle of the Bulge
Was a major German offensive launched through the densely forsted 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
Sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held Feburuary 4-11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the Unitied Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
From February 19 to March 26 ... Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the Unitied States armed forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
Codenamed Operation iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. From 1 April - 22 June -
Victory in Europe
Was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the date when the World War 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