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the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II and the first named for Boatswain's Mate Reuben James, who distinguished himself fighting in the First Barbary War
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory
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an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.
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German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War
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military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force
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Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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An organization to oppose America`s potential intervention in World War II
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law instituted conscription in peacetime, requiring the registration of all men between 21 and 35, with selection for one year's service by a national lottery
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Significant in that FDR went beyond the regular freedoms insured by the constitution and claimed these new rights as American values
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Was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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United States Navy warship during World War
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Japan wanted to move into the Dutch East Indies and Malaya to conquer territories that could provide important natural resources such as oil and rubber.
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represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
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forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains
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major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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Had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
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to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill.
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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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Discussed important issues concerning the fate of Eastern Europe and Germany in the postwar period. Stalin pressed for a revision of Poland's eastern border with the Soviet Union to match the line set by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon in 1920
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World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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He made a radio broadcast in which he declared, “People of the Philippines, I have returned
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An important turning point in the war in the Allies' favor, but it was not without its cost. The Battle of the Bulge is considered one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.
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brought together the Big Three Allied leaders. During this conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's postwar reorganization.
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major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
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A major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away
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formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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An atomic bomb that FDR approves funding the Manhattan Project
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failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War II came to an end
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Shows the preparation of the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” atomic bombs on Tinian Island.
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The codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States
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the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end
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were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949
