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The Battle of the Atlantic
Battles in the Atlantic lasted until the middle of 1943 -
Pearl Harbor
Naval forces stationed in Hawaii are attacked by Japan -
U.S. and Britain Join forces
Winston Churchill called President Roosevelt to create the alliance after the attack on Pearl Harbor -
War Plans
Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler after working out war plans for three weeks in the White House -
Doolittle’s Raid
Tokyo and other Japanese cities were raided -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japanese forces were stopped from entering Australia by American forces -
The Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz fount the Japanese Fleet and torpedo planes and dive bombers were sent to attack -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Germans entered Stalingrad and later surrendered on January 31, 1943 -
North African Front
107,000 allied troops land in North Africa and stayed until Afrika Korps surrendered in May of 1943 -
Doolittle’s Raid
Tokyo and other Japanese cities were raided -
The Italian Campaign
Continued after the capture of Sicily until 1945 when they were freed -
D-Day
Invasion by the Allied forces -
Liberation of Death Camps
Soviet troops found a Nazi death camp for the first time -
Battle of the Bulge
German tank invasion -
Nuremberg Trials
Trials for Nazi war crimes that lasted until 1949 -
The Occupation of Japan
Over 1,000 Japanese troops were arrested by US troops occupying the land and were trialled. -
Yalta Conference
Allied powers pushed to a victory in the city of Yalta in Europe -
Iwo Jima
US soldiers attacked this land so that it could be used for bombers to more easily reach Japan. It was the most heavily defended spot on Earth for the Axis powers. Only about 200 Japanese soldiers survived out of the more than 20,000 involved. -
The Battle of Okinawa
Japanese releases 1,900 kamikaze attacks when the US Marines invaded Okinawa -
Roosevelt's Death
Died from a stroke before V-E Day -
Unconditional Surrender
The Soviet Army stormed Berlin -
The Manhattan Project
The first test of an atomic bomb and could be seen 180 miles away -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An atomic bomb landed in Hiroshima and two days later one in Nagasaki destroying everything and killing over 200,000 Japanese.