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Germany invades Poland from the north, south, and west.
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Japan sends over planes to bomb the U.S. in Hawaii.
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Churchill and Roosevelt sit down and discuss war plans.
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Largest U.S. surrender, Douglas MacAruthur promised to return.
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Defensive voctory for America, we protected Australia from Japan.
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Breaking the Japanese Code helped America win this battle, this is the turning point in the war.
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681 Allied ships were destroyed by German wolf packs.
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Last German offensive battle in the east. Major industrialized center in the Volga River.
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First offensive battle for the U.S.
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Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II.
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Battle takes place in the Pacific and Japan uses a new weapon called the kamikaze attack.
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Germans created a large bulge in Allied lines, but the offensive eventually failed.
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The American flag was raised on top of Mount Surbachi.
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Bomb Tokyo with B-29 bombers, killed nearly 84,000 people.
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Largest and bloodiest battle in the Pacific because the U.S. is getting closer and closer to the home-island of Japan.
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Victory in Europe Day. The day the formal acceptance of by the Allies of World War II.
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First city attacked with an atomic bomb.
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Second city to be attacked with an atomic bomb.
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Japan finally surrenders and ends WWII.
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Japanese finally surrender after their navy and air force was destroyed.
