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The Battle of Britain was also known as the "Air Battle for England", was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force. -
D-Day was 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 attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942 -
The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river. -
The Operation Torch was a compromise operation, and that had 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 -
It had help protect cultural property during and after World War II. -
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front engagement between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in the southwestern USSR during late summer 1943 -
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945 -
The Japanese defenders of the island were dug into bunkers deep within the volcanic rocks. Approximately 70,000 U.S. Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battle -
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His physical health began declining during the later war years, and less than three months into his fourth term -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head -
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.