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Part of Czechoslovakia that was invaded by Germany
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Surprise attack by Japanese to cripple America's Pacific fleet
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was at a strategic location between Japan and the South Pacific. Invaded by the Japanese empire
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization.
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designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.
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Soviet Red Army bearing down on Germany, Hitler left his HQ in East Prussia
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Laboratory in New Mexico where the Manhattan project was located.
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Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
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American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
