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Battle of Britain was important because it kept Nazi materiels of war focused on Britain, steeled the will of British people to find the war to the end and it showed Nazis were not invincible -
The Japanese aircraft launched a surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii -
The Japanese lost 4 carriers, a heavy cruiser, and most of four air groups. The US Navy lost one carrier and destroyer. Between US Navy and US Marines lost a lot of planes but air crewmen were rescued. -
The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German army -
The successful Operation Torch saw the American armies gain their first major victory in WWll -
An international group established in 1943 that worked under Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections to help protect cultural property after WWll -
The Soviets won battle of Kursk and ended Hitler's dream of conquering Russia. -
D-Day brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history
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The last German offensive on the Western Front, it was an unsuccessful attempt to divide the allied force and prevent an invasion of Germany -
Nearly 7,000 US Marines were killed and 20,000 were wounded. Marines captured 216 Japanese soldiers, rest were killed -
More than 20,000 US soldier, sailors, and Marines died during the fighting. In the ocean around Okinawa, the Japanese launched the largest kamikaze or suicide attack of the war. Japanese planes rammed into allied ships, sinking 26 and severely damaging 168. -
While sitting for a portrait, he collapse of a cerebral hemorrhage -
He shot himself with his own pistol, a Walther PPK 7.65 as the Soviet Union entered the heart of Berlin. -
The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and caused cancer and chronic illnesses and caused 14,000 deaths -
The first instances of atomic bombs used against humans, killings tens of thousands of people, obliterating the cities, and contributing to the end of WWll