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Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along the Atlantic
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanaese Navy on the United States. The attack is what pushed the US into World War II
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Churchill and Roosevelt discussed war plans.
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The Doolittle Raid was an air attack on Japan
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first of the Pacific War's six fights between opposing aircraft carrier forces
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After this battle, the Japanese fleet and the American fleet were equal.
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Germans took offense in the southern Soviet Union
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Some 107,000 allied troops landed in Casablanca
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Summer of 1943- Stunned by the fall of their army's collapse. The Italian government forced dictator Benito Mussolini to resign
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the first day of the invasion. Shortly after midnight 3 divisions parachuted down behind german lines. they were followed in early that morning by thousand and thousands of sea born soldiers
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Soviets were the first to come upon one of the Nazi Death Camps. All soldiers were stunned at what they saw.
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Americans captured their first German town
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This conference was held to discuss the post-war reprganization of Europe.
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The Numbering Trials were trials of the people who commited war crimes during WWII (Started in 1945; not sure of the exact date)
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Iwo Jimma was critical to the United States. It allowed them a place where heavily loaded bombers could easily reach Japan. More than 6,000 marines died contracting this land,
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Okinawa was the only obstacle left between the US and Japan after Iwo Jimma. America invaded in April 1945, and the battle lasted until June 21, 1945. More than 7,600 Americans died.
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Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945
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The Manhattan Project was the development of an atomic bomb. The first test of the bomb was on July16, 1945.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki where the two places in Japan where the US dropped atomic bombs
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Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945. Japan was then occupied by the Allied Powers.
