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basically the start of world war 2
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refers to the first 8 months of world war 2, where no major land battles took place
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non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.
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as a program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and material
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germans defeated allied forces in a series of mobile operations
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the germans bombed britain, and this was the first mostly air campaign
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fifty mothballed Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson-class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions
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and the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States is imposed
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were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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torpedoed by a German U-boat
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was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II
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surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II
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concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands
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was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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the battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other
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the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "th
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major battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) of the Panzer Army Africa
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ecalled MacArthur to active duty in the U.S. Army as a major general, and named him commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East
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major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe
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held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeted and opted to open a second front
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The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front
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he won again during the backdrop of world war 2, and won a mass amount of electoral votes, though the popular vote was much closer
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was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
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major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II
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meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. the meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe
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oviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice
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to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes
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was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself
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franklin roosevelt passed away, and truman's presidency ensues, and he has an atomic bomb
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victory in europe day, to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II
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type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
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a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri
