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The Batle of Stalingrad
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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 had missed the Pacific Fleets submarines. Even more importantly, the attack had missed the fleet’s aircraft carries, which were out at sea at the time -
The Battle of the Atlantic
Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along America’s east coast; The German aim in the Battle of the Atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union. -
U.S. and Britain Join forces-
Roosevelt sent out an invitation for Churchill to come -
War Plans
President Minister Churchill arrived at the White House and spent the next three weeks working out war plans with President Roosevelt and his advisors -
Doolittle's Raid
in the spring of 1942 the allies began to turn the tide against the Japanese. The push began on April 8 with a daring raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led 16 bombers in the attack -
Battle of the Coral Sea
They succeeded in stopping the Japanese drive toward Australia in the five day Battle of the Coral Sea. during this battle, the fighting was done by airplanes that took off from enormous aircraft carriers -
North African Front
Most of the allies ended up North Africa. British General Rommell sent out a message to Churchill stating that they wished to cease. -
The Italian Campaign
Duce II was arrested because of King Victor; End od the war in North Africa. In May 1944 ; the war of Bloody Anizo took place with the allies against the Germans. Italy wasnt free until 1945 -
D-Day
Day of the invasions. People lived their lives being followed by the Germans -
Liberation of Death Camps
Soviets were the first to go into the camps where they later realized that it was not a concentration camp & was a death camp- labeled as the world's largest crematorium -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans captured 120 Americans. The battle lasted a whole month & in the battle many troops and materials were lost -
Yalta Conference
The Allies pushed toward victory in Europe, an ailing Roosevelt had met with Churchill and Stalin at the Black Sea resort city of Yalta in the Soviet Union. Stalin graciously welcomed the president and the prime minster, and the Big Three, as they were called, toasted the defeat of Germany -
Battle of Midway
Iwo Jima an island that writer William Manchester described as an ugly smelly glob of cold lava squatting in a surly ocean. Iwo Jima was critical to the United States as a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan -
The Battle of Okinawa
U.S. Marines invaded Okinawa. -
Rooselvelt's Death
He did not live to see V-E Day. Harry S. Truman became president next -
The Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer the development of the atomic bomb was not only the most ambitious scientific enterprise in history, it was also the best kept secret of war. The test of the new bomb took place on the morning of July 16, 1945 in an empty expanse of desert new Alamogordo, New Mexico. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Enola Gay released an atomic bomb, code named Little Boy, over hiroshima an important Japanese military center. Forty three seconds later almost every building in the city collapsed into dust from the force of the blast. -
The Occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied by U.S. forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. In the early years of the occupation, more than 1,000 Japanese, from former Prime Minster Hideki Tojo were sentenced to guards, were arrested and put on trail. Some including Tojo, were sentenced to death. -
Nuremberg Trials
The discovery of Hitler’s death camps led the Allies to put 24 surviving Nazi leaders on trial of crimes against humanity, crimes against the peace, and war crimes. The Trails were held in the southern German town of Nuremberg -
Unconditional Surrender
Hitler and his wife killed themselves of "shame".