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Start of War in Atlantic/European Theater
The European Theater Includes West Europe, Russia, and North Africa. -
Battle of the Atlantic
This battle was naval and the struggle between the Allied and German forces for control over the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic is the source where all resources came to Britain. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
The evacuation allowed British army to avoid being captured and live for another day. If they were captured then their only trained troops would've fallen and collapsed from the Allied. -
Battle of Britain
Britain's success in the Battle of Britain highlighted the country's military and civilians' tenacity and endurance, allowing them to remain free of Nazi occupation. It also allowed the Americans to set up a base of operations in England in preparation for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in 1944. This battle type was air force. -
Lend/Lease Act
The Lend-Lease policy was a program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. Loaned on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of America, this aid included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended on September 20, 1945. -
Start of War in Pacific Theater
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. -
United States joins WW2
The United States entered the war when the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a United States naval station near Honolulu, Hawaii, where Japanese forces launched a deadly surprise attack on December 7, 1941. On that Sunday morning, just before 8 a.m., hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the base, destroying or damaging over 20 American navy vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 warplanes. More than 2,400 Americans, including civilians, were killed in the attack, and another 1,000 were injured. -
Bataan Death March
Forced march of 70,000 American and Filipino POWs seized by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. The malnourished and ill-treated inmates were marched 63 miles from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula to a prison camp. -
Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Strike, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was a World War II air raid by the United States against the Japanese capital Tokyo and other areas on Honshu on April 18, 1942. It was the first air raid on Japan. Regardless of the fact that the assault produced only minor damage, it indicated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American airstrikes. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
A US ship pushed back a Japanese invasion force heading for crucial Port Moresby, New Guinea, during World War II. The battle ended the Japanese sea-borne invasion of Port Moresby, and it was the first time the Japanese encountered failure in a major operation during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
Took away Japan's hopes of neutralizing the US as naval power and they moved WW2 into the Pacific Ocean. -
D-Day
The fight, codenamed Operation Overlord, started on June 6, 1944, better known as D-Day, when 156,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed on five beaches along a 50-mile length of France's highly defended coast in Normandy. -
Battle of Bulge
During World War II, the last major German onslaught on the Western Front. Following the Normandy Invasion, Germany's terrible losses prevented it from blocking the advance of Allied forces. This battle was counter-offensive. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference brought together three World War II allies: President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. They met at Yalta, a tourist city on the Crimean Peninsula's Black Sea coast. -
Death of Roosevelt
On April 12, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. FDR was 63. -
V-E Day
May 8, 1945 – Victory in Europe Day (V-E DAY) -
Hiroshima
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was known as "Little Boy". -
Nagasaki
Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” -
V-J Day
V-J Day stands for Victory Over Japan or Victory in Japan. -
Creation of United Nations
In June 1945, the United Nations Charter was negotiated by representatives from 50 countries. The United Nations had two pledges: to end “the scourge of war” and to regain “faith in fundamental human rights.”