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Non aggression pact
which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Battle of Britain
was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Atlantic Conference
Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Operation Torch
was an Anglo American invasion of French North Africa, during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. -
Italian campaign
the U.S. and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, planned to invade Italy. Beyond their goal of crushing Italian Axis forces, the Allies wanted to draw German troops away from the main Allied advance through Nazi-occupied northern Europe to Berlin, Germany. -
Tehran Conference
was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo Soviet Invasion of Iran. -
Operation Overlord
was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German occupied Western Europe during World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium. -
Yalta Conference
was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post war world. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
represented to the Americans the pinnacle of forcible entry from the sea. This particular amphibious assault was the ultimate storm landing, the Japanese phrase describing the American propensity for concentrating overwhelming force at the point of attack. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. On April 1, 1945 Easter Sunday the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and U.S. -
Surrender of Berlin/Germany
the Soviets were approaching the German capital of Berlin from the east and the Western Allies were approaching it from the west. -
Potsdam Conference
was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Hiroshima
The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Nagasaki
a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed Fat Man on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th.