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Non Aggression pact
was also known as the Nazi-soviet pact or the Hitler-Stalin pact.it was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow. -
Battle of Brittain
battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and it was also the largest and most sustained bombing campaign to the date. It also was the first defeat of Hitler's military forces. -
Atlantic Conference
it Strengthen the US and Great Britain by signing the Atlantic Charter. -
Battle of Midway
the victory at midway-stopped the Japanese and put them on the defensive. -
Operation Torch
the invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle east. -
Battle of Stalingrad
it was the largest confrontation of world war 2. it Turned the tide on the eastern front of the European theater. -
Tehran Conference
it was the first meeting between the leaders of the most important countries in the anti-Nazi alliance. -
Battle of the Bulge
it was The last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis. -
Operation Overload
this was the codename for the Battle of Normandy. It was the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War 2. -
Yalta Conference
This was the second wartime meeting attended by Churchill ,FDR,and Stalin. Final plans for the defeat of Europe and began discussion. Post War European plans. -
Surrender of Berlin/Germany
Soviets were approaching Berlin from the east and the Allies were approaching from the west . Hitler committed suicide knowing he was about to be defeated. The Nazis Surrendered. Around 81,000 Soviet Union soldiers were killed and another 280,000 were wounded in this tragedy -
Italian campaign
American and British landings in Italy opened up another front ,but they still delayed direct attack on Germany. -
Potsdam Conference
The meeting at Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations. At the meeting the most pressing issue was the postwar fate of Germany. -
Battle of Okinawa
It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War 2. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Japanese soldiers at Iwo Jima and Okinawa demonstrated that the Japanese were not going to give in, saying how costly an invasion would be. -
Hiroshima
this was the first place in japan that the U.S dropped a bomb on to end WW2 -
Nagasaki
3 days after the U.S dropped a bomb on Hiroshima, this was the second place where the U.S dropped a bomb at. They wanted Japan to end the war.