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The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain happened in June 1940. The Battle of Britain was a military campaign in World War 2, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Pearl Harbor
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th 1941, and it destroyed nearly 20 american ships and more than 300 airplanes. Around 2,403 Americans were killed in the attack, 68 of which were civilians. The goal of Pearl Harbor was to destroy the Pacific Fleet. The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service sent planes to Pearl Harbor to throw bombs and bullets onto the ships and planes below. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a key battle to secure dominance in the Pacific in World War II that took place on 4 June 1942- 7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Battle of Midway was fought almost entirely with aircraft. The United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad lasted from August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943. In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare. Nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. -
operation Torch
Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. Operation Torch began on November 8, 1942 and ended on November 16, 1942. It resulted from an uneasy compromise between the Western Allies, and was intended to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union by imperiling Axis forces in the region and by enabling an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. The group of approximately 400 service members and civilians worked with military forces to safeguard historic and cultural monuments from war damage. -
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk occurred on July 5, 1943 around the Soviet city of Kursk in western Russia. The battle was Hitler’s response to his devastating defeat by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. The Soviets had predicted the German attack beforehand and had withdrawn their main forces from the obviously threatened positions within the salient. -
D-Day
D-Day was on June 6th, 1944. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. More than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge took place on December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945. The Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The battle proved to be the costliest ever fought by the U.S. Army, which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. The island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. It's believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, and almost 7,000 Marines. -
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was from April 1, 1945-June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. -
The Death of FDR
The Death of FDR was on April 12, 1945, it was about 1 p.m. that the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the back of his head and collapsed unconscious. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War. -
Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler dies On April 30, 1945, in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. his wife of one day, Eva Braun, committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. That afternoon their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima happened On August 6, 1945. This is the first time the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weapons during wartime. 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. -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki took place on August 9, 1945. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man,” on August 1, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. This bombing resulted in Japans surrender. The number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000.