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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the United States in Hawaii. -
US and Britain Join Forces
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wired President Roosevelt and asked to form an alliance 2 days after Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt responded at once and agreed to form an alliance. -
War Plans
Churchill arived at the White House and spend the next 3 weeks working on war plans with Roosevelt and advisors. Churchill conviced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler. -
Battle of the Atlantic
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Doolittle's Raid
The first air raid that US attacked Japan -
Battle of the Coral Sea
A battle in the Pcific Theater between the imperial Japanese navy and the Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia -
The Battle of Midway
It is regarded as the most important naval battle of the pacific campaign of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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North African Front
Allied troops, mostly American, landed in Casablance, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. They cahsed the Afrika Corps east until they surrended in May 1943. -
The Italian Campaign
King Victor Emanuel III summoned II Duce to his place, stripped him out of power, and had him arrested. Italians celebrated the end of the war, but Hitler was determined to stop the Allies in Italy. -
D-Day
The Allied invasion was set for June 5th, but due to weather was postponed until June 6th. The code name for this attack was "Operation Overlord." D-Day was the first day of the invasion. -
Liberation of Death Camps
Soviet troops were the first to come across the Nazi death camps. When the Soviets entered, they found a thousand starving prisoners barely alive, the world's largest crematorium, and a storehouse containing 800,000 shoes. The Americans were later equally horrified. -
Battle of the Bulge
Americans captured the first German town, Aachen in October. Hitler ordered his troops to capture Belgian port of Antwerp. Eight German tank divisions broke through American defenses on an 80-mile front. Tanks drove into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines. -
Iwo Jima
A major battle where the United States took over islands of Iwo Jima -
Yalta Conference
The wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. -
The Battle of Okinawa
It was fought on the Ryukyu islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific was of World War II. -
Roosevelts Death
Roosevelt had a stroke while posing for a portrait in Georgia and died. That night, Harry S. Truman became the 33rd President. -
Unconditional Surrender
Soviet Army stormed Berlin. Hitler prepared for the end. On the same day he got married (April 29) he wrote his last address, blaming the Jews for starting war and his generals for losing it. The next day Hitler shot himself and his wife was poisoned. Their bodies were both burned. -
The Manhattan Project
The first bomb was tested. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The only use of nuclear weapons in the war was in these two cities. -
The Occupation of Japan
At the end of the war,Japan was occupied by the Allied powers. -
Nuremberg Trials
A series of military tribunals
