• The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was fought above the skies of Britain, between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Had British and Allied aircrew not defeated the Luftwaffe, it is likely that Germany would have invaded Britain.
  • The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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    Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.
  • The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.----the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    The Battle of Stalingrad
    Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to engage in the fight against Nazi Germany on a limited scale.
  • The Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge
    The Allies won the Battle of the Bulge, resulting in significantly higher casualties on the German side despite their surprise attack on Allied forces. Losing 120,000 people and military supplies, German forces were dealt an irreparable blow, while Allied forces suffered only 75,000 casualties.
  • The Battle of Kursk

    The Battle of Kursk
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    The Soviets won the Battle of Kursk and ended Hitler's dream of conquering Russia. Arguably, Germany won the tactical battle but was unable to break through the Red Army's fortifications and so lost the advantage.
  • Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program

    Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
    an international group established in 1943 that worked under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections to help protect cultural property during and after World War II.
  • D-Day (June 6th, 1944)

    D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
    brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history. The operation, given the codename, "overload" delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
  • The Battle of Iwo Jima

    The Battle of Iwo Jima
    It had been one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. After the battle, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen
  • The Battle of Okinawa

    The Battle of Okinawa
    The Battle of Okinawa was a victory for the US but resulted in massive casualties on both sides. Japanese forces fought with the same fanaticism the Americans had witnessed in battles such as Iwo Jima. Rather than be taken prisoner, defenders often chose suicide.
  • The Death of FDR

    The Death of FDR
    he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Vice President Harry Truman took the oath of office
  • The death of adolf hitler

    The death of adolf hitler
    Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin.
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
    On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • Atomic Bombing Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
    The atomic bomb used at Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, was "Fat Man". The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 airplane named "Bockscar", piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Major Charles Sweeney.