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German U-boats sink United States Navy ships. (October - November 1941)
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Japanese surprise attack on American forces.
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As the news about Pearl Harbor spread across the nation and FDR prepared to adress the Congress, Americans rallied together. After FDR's speech, the House voted 388 to 1 to declare war and the Senated joined them unanimously.
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In December 1941, General MacArthur, commander if the U.S. Army foreces in Asia, struggled to hold the U.S. position in the Philippines with little support. This mission grew more daunting after the Pearl Harbor attack occured and the Japanese rapidly took over Guam, Wake Island, and Hong Kong.
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Air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital of Tokyo. It demostrated that Japan was vulnerable to American Air attack, served as retaliation for the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor.
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The forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military.
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Japanese and American aircraft battle.
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The turning point of the Pacific
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Code name for atomic bomb used to end war in the Pacific.
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Major battle on the Eastern Front of WW2 between the Soviet Union and the German Nazis over the control of the city Stanlingrad.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War.
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U.S. Army group established during WW2 so that woman could serve in noncombat roles.
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The Allied Invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War 2
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Was a major offensive campaign launched through the densenly forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxenburgo on the Western Front toward the end of the WW2
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U.S pilots dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The U.S dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 35,000 residents.
