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The invasion of Poland was Germany’s swift, Blitzkrieg-style attack starting September 1st, using tanks and AirPower to overwhelm Polish defenses, triggering Britain and France to declare war and officially beginning World War II -
The Battle of Britain was a World War II air campaign in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the UK against the German Luftwaffe from July to October 1940. It was the first major battle fought entirely in the air and resulted in a Nazi defeat. -
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan against the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that launched the U.S. in World War 2 -
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle fought from June 4-7, 1942, during World War 2, where the U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese navy in the Pacific. This American victory, made possible by breaking Japanese naval codes, halted Japan’s expansion and is considered a major turning point in the Pacific theater -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major, brutal World War II conflict (August 1942-February 1943) where the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany
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Operation Torch was the November 1942 Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa during WWII, a major combined land, sea, and air operation led by general Eisenhower to open a second front Axis forces -
The (MFAA) was a WWII Allied effort (1943-1946) to protect, identify, and recover cultural treasures (art, architecture, archives) looted or endangered by Nazis, involving art experts, historians, and soldiers who secured sites, stolen items , and returned them to their owners
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The battle of Kursk was a pivotal World War II engagement in July-August 1943 where German army’s final major offensive on the Eastern Front was defeated by the Soviet Red Army
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D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, code named Operation Overlord. It was the biggest air, land, sea invasion in history, marking the start of the campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation. -
The Battle of Bulge was a major German offensive against the Western Front in World War II, launched on December 16, 1944. Germany aimed to split the Allied armies by driving through the thinly defended Ardennes Forest in Belgium, creating a bulge in the allied lines -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a 36 day U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault in World War 2, fought from February 19 to March 26, 1945, to capture the strategic island from entrenched Japanese forces. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12, 1945, at his Warm Springs, Georgia, retreat(the “little White House”) from a massive cerebral hemorrhage (brain stroke) while sitting for a portrait, collapsing after complaining of a severe headache. -
Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide by gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin -
The Battle of Okinawa was a major battle fought from April 1 to June 22, 1945, between the U.S. military and Japanese forces during World War 2. The U.S. sought to capture the island as a forward base for invading Japan. -
The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy” , on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, during World War II. This was the first time a nuclear weapon was used in welfare -
The Atomic bombing of Nagasaki occurred on August 9, 1945, when a U.S. Bomber, the Bockscar, dropped a plutonium implosion-type bomb nicknamed the Fat Man on the city during WWII