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Japanese attack on pearl harbor
Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. -
American declaration of war
After Japanese forces attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and asked for a Declaration of War with Japan. -
Battle of the coral sea
Naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other -
Battle of midway
US aircraft flying from USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, and USS Yorktown attacked and sunk four Japanese carriers, forcing Yamamoto to withdrawal. -
battle of guadalcanal
The Japanese defeat at the Battle of Midway had forced planners in the Imperial Army to reconsider their plans of expansion and to concentrate their forces on consolidating the territory that they had captured. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is considered by many historians to have been the turning point in World War Two in Europe. The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. -
Operation Torch
The American Army existed only on paper as Churchill and Roosevelt signed their paper on the deck of the USS Augusta that October. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler had convinced himself that the alliance between Britain, France and America in the western sector of Europe was not strong and that a major attack and defeat would break up the alliance. -
Battle of Iwo Jime
Battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. -
V-E Day Victory in Europe
The date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. -
Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
six months before the atomic bombings, the United States intensely fire-bombed 67 Japanese cities. Together the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, The United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26,1945. -
D-day/Battle of Normandy
The Battle of Normandy was fought during World War II in the summer of 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe. -
Battle of Okinawa
After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, Island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland . -
V-J Day Victoy in Japan
The most Americans on duty in the Pacific dreaded was the upcoming invasion of Japan. The atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki canceled that operation when the Japanese quickly surrendered. -
Nuremberg war crimes trial
The law is one way to seek justice after genocide. After World War II, both international and domestic courts conducted trials of accused war criminals. -
establishment of the nation of israel
The scriptures prophesied that Israel would be dispersed among the nations then brought out from among them in a gradual process that would culminate in the establishment of Israel as a nation in a single day.
