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war plans
Churchill and Roosevelt spent 3 weeks working out war plans -
doolittles raid
James Doolittle led 16 bombers into tokyo -
battle of the coral sea
japense try and invade port moesby on may 7 they had a huge battle went on for 2 days -
scout planes find japanese fleet
americans sent dive bombers and torpedo planes. -
battle of midway
japense went to eliminate the us of strategic power -
Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler hoped to capture the Soviet oil fiels in the Caucsus Mountains. Germans went house to house capturing them. Terrible weather . soviets lost 1,100,000 soldiers. -
Mussolini loses power
King Victor Emmanuel III stripped Mussolini from his power and had arrested. -
Battle of Anzio
Bloodiest battle, part of italian theatre -
D day
Allies invade Normandy. Largest single day invasion -
GI Bill
A bill concerning the veterans paying for their educations and training -
battle of leyte gulf
Us invaded the island leyte to try and isolate japan from countries; oil supplies -
Battle of Bulge
16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945, was the last hope of the Germans. -
Yalta Conference
trying to figure out post war for Germany. -
Battle of iwo jima
united states fought and captured -
battle for okinawa
us marines invaded Okinawa. Japanese retaliated with kmaikaze's -
Roosevelt
Roosevelt dies just before V-E day, from stroke. -
V-E Day
germans surender. war in europe ends. -
Bomb dropped
In Hiroshima an atomic bomb was dropped -
bombing
atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki -
Nuremberg trials
the trails of hitlers leaders
