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It authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
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It is also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland.
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Also known as the Phoney War , it refers to an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.
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It was a United States Navy warship during World War II that was torpedoed by a German U-boat, but survived it.
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It was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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It's the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force.
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Between the U.S. and the U.K., 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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It was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.
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It was an address known as the Four Freedoms speech that Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech.
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It was 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 materials.
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A post-World War I destroyer and was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II.
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It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii that led to the U.S. entry of WW2.
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It represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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It was the forcible transfer of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army.
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It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the U.S. and Australia.
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It was a crucial and decisive naval battle bewtween the U.S. and Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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It was a 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 in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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It was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
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This was a major battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
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It was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco.
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It was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
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it was a meeting between Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran.
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They were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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After advancing islands in the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General MacArthur came onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office; he defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the general election.
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It 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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It was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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This was a 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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It 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.
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President Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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It was the public holiday celebrated on 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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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during WW2.
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It was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States.
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It's the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.
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They were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes.
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The U.S. and other countries all held military tribunals to try Japanese indicted for Class B and Class C war crimes.
