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This is the beginning of WW2
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Military strategy from Germany to go all out with tanks and air force, Lightning war
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German tanks outflanked the Maginot Line and pushed deep into France and occupied Paris, France then surrendered
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Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German
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U.s Gave Britain 50 old warships in exchange to set up military bases in islands near Great Britain
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U.s non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.
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Roosevelt convinced congress to pass a draft where 1.2 M citizens were made to join the army during peace
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the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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U.S favoring Britain and allowing them to buy military needs on credit
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was torpedoed on her starboard side by a German U-boat while on patrol off Greenland but did not sink
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first U.S Navy ship sunk by hostile action World War II and the first named for Reuben James who distinguished himself fighting in the Barbary Wars
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surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base
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Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago
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Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point to Camp O'Donnell
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naval battle between the Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia
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Japanese Navy lost four aircraft carriers and the initiative in the Pacific and this was a decisive battle
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Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces of the Panzer Army Africa and Allied
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Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran
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plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte his forces invaded the main Philippine island of Luzon.
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This was the first and only time a president has been inaugurated for a fourth term. Roosevelt died 82 days into this term, and Truman succeeded to the presidency.
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Germans launch the last major offensive of the war attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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forces only concentrate their resources, setting up military forces/ supplies, on strategically important islands
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discussed Europe's postwar reorganization re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany.
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One-third of all Marine losses at Iwo Jima; it was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties than their Japanese counterparts
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largest amphibious landing in the Pacific and It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies
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FDR's death marked a critical turning point in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, as his successor, Harry S. Truman, decided to take a tougher stance with the Russians.
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public holiday celebrated 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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At the Potsdam meeting, the most pressing issue was the postwar fate of Germany.
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atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on during World War II
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atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States and It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare
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was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
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presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death
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to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for "Class A" crimes, which were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy
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research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons, led by U.S
