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The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940 -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
The Battle of Midway
One of the most important battles of World War II. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. Teh battle took place over four days between June 4th and June 7th in 1942. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of WWII in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern booundary of Europe. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
The 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 Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normany in Operation Overlord during WWII. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a mjor German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg ont he Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the U.S Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
The Battle of Okinawa
Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. -
The Death of FDR
President Roosevelt died of cerebral hemorrhage at the Little White House, his cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia, the rehablilitation center for the treatment of polio that he founded. -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during the final stage of the war
