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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was U-boats and other ships of the German Navy against U.S.ships. Germany was shooting down convoys that the U.S. was using to transport military equipment and supplies across to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, going from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by, Japan against the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. This attack was meant to make sure that the U.S would not interfere with japans actions in the pacific. -
Battle of Midway
only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." -
Battle of Stalingrad
The plan was to get past the front of Russia and go far east to the oil fields of the Caspian sea and gor far east to Stalingrad to capturre the Volga River which was the mainway into Russia. Hitler did not want his troops to occupy Stalingrad, but cover it with artillery. Germany end up retreating.. A scorched earth policy is a military strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area -
operation torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign...Patton led U.S. troops into the European theater with an invasion of Casablanca during the North African Campaign where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the Seventh Army during the Invasion of Sicily, where he beat British General Bernard Law Montgomery. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy with 24,000 British, American, Canadian and Free French troops. They used higgins boats to get close to the land since it had a flat bottom. The Allies end up pushing Germany back from the beach.Eisenhower wrote a brief message to Marshall, informing the chief of staff that everything seemed to be going well and adding that the British and American troops he had seen the previous day were enthusiastic, tough. -
Battle of leyte Gulf
It was fought in waters near the Philippine islands of Leyte and Samar from 23–26 October 1944, between combined US and Australian forces and the Imperial Japanese Navy. On 20 October, United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in Southeast Asia, and in particular depriving its forces and industry of vital oil supplies. Japan use kamikaze pilots which was crashing the plane into the enemy. Japan Lost. -
Battle of the Bulge
German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium during World War II's Battle of the Bulge. He is famous for his single-word reply of "Nuts!" in response to a German surrender ultimatum. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. Also famous for raising the American Flag on top of the hill of Mt. Suribachi -
Battle of Okinawa
was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.After a long campaign of island hopping(going to island to island), the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender just weeks after the end of the fighting -
Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May,the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, and the United States deployed two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project. American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August
