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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii
On Sunday Dec. 7th, 1941, the United States was surprised by a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Causing lots of damage to the American Naval Fleet. The attack lasted a few hours and it was a day that will "live in infamy". -
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Key American Events of WWII
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Battle of Coral Sea
A Japanese force on its way to attack Port Moresby, New Guinea, and seized Tulagi Island. Before Japan could reach New Guinea a British-U.S. naval force stopped them. U.S. damaged a Japanese carrier and destroyed another and several aircraft. Allies lost a carrier. -
Batlle of Midway June 3rd-6th
U.S. fighters, divebombers, and torpedo planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down many enemy planes. -
Battle of Alamein 1st-27th
It was fought in the deserts of North Africa. The Allied victory lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
This was the first major offensive battle for the United States. It went on for six months. -
Manhattan Project A.K.A Atomic Bomb
The effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb. They named them Little boy and Fat man. They dropped one of the bombs on Hiroshima. Then they dropped the second one on Nagasaki. -
Invasion of Italy
North Africa offered a gateway to the Italian island of Sicily. Allied leaders invaded Silcly. They wanted to get the Axis forces out of the central Mediterranean. -
Operation Overlord
It was an Allied invasion of German-occupied France. The Allies landed farther south in Normandy. -
Battle of the Bulge
This is when Germany launched their last counterattack They pushed westward to create a dangerous bulge in the Allied lines. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
This was the last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific. It was a disaster for the Japanese and they were no longer a threat to the Allies -
The Yalta Conference
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to plan for postwar peace. They decided to agree and divide and occupy Germany after the war and outlined plans for a new international peace organization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It lasted six weeks. Several thousand marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldieres were killed. U.S. Marines struggled to take Mount Suribachi and when they reached the mountaintop the planted the U.S. flag. -
Battle of Okinawa
U.S. battleships and other warships made the Japanese to retrat to the southern tip of the island.One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war. -
V.E. Day Victory in Europe
Great Britain and the United States celebrated victory. Cities in both nations put out flags and banners because of the defeat of the Nazis -
V.J. Day
