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Non Aggression Pact
The Non-Aggression Pact was a pact agreed on by the soviet union and Germany, or Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. In which they both agreed to take no military action against each other for the next ten years. While Europe was about to get into a major war Stalin believed that the pact would cause peace between Germany while Stalin was trying to build the Soviet Military. Hitler used the pct as an opportunity to invade Poland unopposed. The Pact fell after the Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a battle between Germany and Britsih air forces. During the summer and fall of 1940, the two air forces battled in the skies of the United Kingdom. This was a major turning point of the war, The Battle of Britain ended because the Germans Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over Britians air force (Royal Air Force) Germany previous to the battle attacked British military bases, air bases, and other civilians. Due to the British victory, this stoped ground invasion. -
Atlantic Conference
The United States and Great Britan issued a joint declaration in August of 1941 to set out a vision for the postwar world. 26 allied nations made a pledge to support the declaration and later lead to make the United Nation. The Conference made eight common principles. Such as seeking no territorial gains from the war , oppoed any territorial changes made agianst the peoples wishes, restoration of self-government, access for all nations to raw materials , internatioanl coorperation, etc. -
Battle of Midway
The biggest naval battle of WWII between the US and Japanese in the Pacific at Midway. It was a turning point of the war. The Japanese defeat discouraged them from ever advancing in that region of the pacific again. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russia and Germany and the axis powers. This Battle became famous for being one of the longest and bloodest battles in modern warfare. The Battle lasted from August 1942- February 1943. More than 2 million fought in close quaters. Almost two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, also tens of thousand of Russian Civilians.THis war turned the tide because it put WWII in favor of the Allied Forces. -
Operation Torch Date
This Operation was an Allied invasion of French North Africa. This was the first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together. The plan was to invae Sicily and then on to mainland Italy and move up to what they called back then "soft underbelly" of Europe. If the allies won the region it would have cleared the Mediterranean Sea of Axis shipping and leave it more free for the Allies use. -
Italian Campaign
This was the final push to defeat the Axis powers of Italy and Germany during World War II. The U.S. and Great Britain, lead the Allied powers, planned to invade Italy. They wanted to draw German Troops away from the main Allied advance through Nazi-occupied northern Europe to Berlin, Germany. The Campaign was a series of Allied beach landing and land battles from Sicily and southern Ital up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. Italian fascist regime fell rapidly and Mussolini surrendered. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prime Mister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, in Iran, to discuss strategies for winning WWII and potential terms for a peace settlement. Roosevelt expressed his excitement at the prospect of meeting Stalin for the first time. Stalin promised to help the U.S. defeat Japan. Churchill felt uncomturable about Roosevelts efforts to try to charm Stalin. Churchill preerred an indirect assalut on Germany to Overload. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord also knew as D-Day is the Normandy invasion when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of Frances Normandy region. More than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing. The Allies had reached Seine River, Paris and the Germans had been removed from northwestern France. The U.S victory causes the Nazi surrender and Hitlers Sucide. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitlers attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe b means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Three German Armies launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. Due to a crucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests of the Ardennes proved fatal to Hitler's ambition to snatch, if not victory or a draw with the allies. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the second meeting of the big 3; Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss postwar Europe, or recovery. During the meeting they agreed Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have free elections for their next election. However, Stalin later retracted. The big 3 also discussed how to defeat Japan. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a battle by the U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan about 750 miles off the coast of Japan. The island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. all but 200 of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed as well as almost 7,000 Marines. When the U.S. Marines landed in Japna they faced unseen challenges such as steep dunes to soft, gray volcanic ash. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II and one of the bloodiest. On Easter Sunday the Navy Fifth fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push toward Japan.Allied and Soviet Troops had libertated much of Nazi-occupied Euriope and were just weeks away from Germans surrender. The U.S. attacked Olinawa before they got to japan. -
Surrender of Berlin/Germany
On this day Germany signs an unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. Eisenhower demanded a complete surrender from the Germans and he also prepared to seal off the western front preventing Germans from fleeing to the West in order to surrender, thereby leaving them in the hands of the enveloping Soviet forces. -
Potsdam Conference
This was the last of the World War II meetings held by the "big three" heads of states. Formed of Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for the administration of Germany. The leaders later issued a declaration demanding Japan to unconditionally surreder. -
Hiroshima bombing
After the Potsdam conference with Stalin, Harry S. Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Both cities were industrial cities and Truman knew this would force the Japanese to surrender. The bombing of Hiroshima resulted in
60, 000 Japanese dead. Truman validated the bombing by saying that it would ultimately save American lives and end the war quickly. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki is the 2nd industrial city of Japan that the US dropped on atomic bomb on. This bombing is the one that officially made the Japanese surrender. It killed 35,000 and demolished the city.