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The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Fource on the US against the naval base at Pearl Harbor inHawaii on December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day
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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 train
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the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II.
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Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II
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The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre
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Germany signed a surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II
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The day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on the 8 May 1945
