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Battle of Britain
In the late summer of 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered an air assault on the country of Great Britain. One night, the German Airforce bombed te outskirts of Britain and the British decided to launch a counter attack. The next night the German bombed major cities including London. -
Leningrad Siege
During World War II, German forces begin their siege of Leningrad, a major industrial center and the USSR's second-largest city. The German armies were later joined by Finnish forces that advanced against Leningrad down the Karelian Isthmus. The siege of Leningrad, also known as the 900-Day Siege though it lasted a grueling 872 days, resulted in the deaths of some one million of the city's civilians and Red Army defenders. -
Pearl Harbor Bombed
On December 7, 1941, The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The First attack began at 7:49 A.M. and the Japanese air fleet destroyed The Arizona and the Oklahoma and damaged several others. There were more than 3,400 casualties and 2,388 killed. This event was known as " The Day Of Infamy" in the United States -
Executive Order 9066
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Americans began to worry about the large amount of Japanese Americans that lived in the U.S. So, in February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that ordered all Japanese Americans to be moved to "Camps" in the Western part of the U.S. In December of 1944, The camps finally began to close after the war ended and Japanese Americans declared their loyalty to the U.S. -
The Panzer Tanks
The German military strategy of using of fast-moving tanks, with motorized infantry and artillery supported by dive-bombers, and concentrating on one part of the enemy sector, became known as Blitzkreig (lightning war). The strategy was first put forward by Colonel John Fuller, the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps. Fuller was disappointed with the way tanks were used during the First World War and afterwards produced Plan 1919 -
D-Day
D-Day was the largest amphibious assault in U.S. History. It pertained of 150,000 troops and 50,000 vehicles. Allied forces breached the shores of Normandy over a 50 mile stretch and destroed the axis powers. -
Battle of Saipan
U.S. troops attacked the shores of Saipan with machine gun fire, heavy artillery, and Flamethrowers as well as tanks. The Japanese soldiers fled to caves and would hide during the day but fight druing the night. The U.S. finally developed tactics to clear out these caves by sending in flametrhrowers and artillery fire. Many Japanese died. (Mostly suicide), and the U.S. took over the island in about a month. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
At 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 but the date was pushed back
