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The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because Japan tried to take an empire, the United States expressed great disapproval, eventually ending trade with Japan after Japan took Vietnam in 1941. By ending trade with Japan, the US cut off Japan's supply of oil and iron.
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Roosevelt and Churchill met 2 days after Pearl Harbor and decided to join forces.
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Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler and then take on the Pacific.
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Germans sank 87 ships off the Atlantic shore. It lasted as long as the war.
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Allies were against the Japanese. Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led bombers to attack Tokyo.
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Allies in Pacific were Americans and Australians. A 5 day battle stopped the Japanese from going and attacking Australia. Fighting was done by airplanes and not surface ships. Since Pearl Harbor, this was the only time the Japanese had been stopped.
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The allies stopped Japans invasion once again. Americans broke the Japanese code and figured out that Midway was their target. Americans sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack. After the attack, the Japanese ended up losing a lot of aircraft. Allied forces moved closer to Japan.
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With the help of the winter, the Germans were finally defeated by the Soviet Union.
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Dwight Eisenhower was chasing General Erwin Rommel across the North African front. After months of heavy fighting, Rommel surrendered.
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Hitler was trying to keep the fighting in Italy rather than Germany.
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Allies made the Germans believe there was going to be an attack at Calais, when in reality Allies were planning a surprise attack on German troops. Retaliation from Germans was brutal.
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Soviet troops stumbled upon one of the Nazis death camps, leaving the Nazis no time to cover up their crime.
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After Allies captured Aachen, Hitler ordered his troops to break through Allied lines. Germans lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks and assault guns and 1,600 planes.
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Was a conference discussing the fate of Germany and the postwar world between the three leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.
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Allies went to Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was critical to America because it was a base. It had a lot of Japanese defenders. More than 6,000 marines died and only 200 Japanese lived.
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Okinawa was invaded by the U.S. marines. It ended on June 21, 1945, and 7,600 Americans had died.
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President Roosevelt had a stroke and died while posing for a portrait. Harry S. Truman became nation's 33rd president.
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Soviet army stormed Berlin. Hitler and his new wife committed suicide to avoid capitulation. Allies celebrated V-E Day- Victory in Europe Day. War in Europe ended.
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The Manhattan Project was led by General Leslie Groves and an American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project’s purpose was the develop an atomic bomb that would be the best-kept secret of the entire war. 600,000 Americans were involved in the project. The first testing of the project was a success.
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Japan was occupied by U.S. forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur reshaped Japan’s economy in many different ways in 7 years.
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An atomic bomb was released over Hiroshima, which is an important Japanese military center. It took a total of 43 seconds to collapse almost every building in the city. Hiroshima would not surrender. 3 days after that, Nagasaki was bombed by a second bomb.
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The Nuremberg Trials was when the Allies discovered Hitler’s death camps and put 24 Nazi leaders on trial for the crimes against humanity. The trails were held in the southern German town of Nuremberg.
