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The Second World War that envolved two sides: the Axis Powers and the Allies.
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the largest U.S. naval base.
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The United States involvement in World War II
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After Pearl Harbor the U.S. and Britain made an alliance
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Prme Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt created a war plan to strike Europe first then the Pacific
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The battle during WWII between the Allies and Axis Powers in the Atlantic Ocean
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Lieutenant ColoneJames Doolittle led 16 bombers in the attack on Tokyo.
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Battle of Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific. It was between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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Americans sent torpedo planes down on Japanese territory. The Japanese lost 4 air crast carriers, 1 cruiser and 250 planes.
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A battle in Stalingard, Russia where the U.S.S.R. was able to defeat the Nazis from taking a vital city
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The "second front" in Western Europe where the Allies took North Africa from the Axis Powers. This was a major victory for the Allies.
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The Battle of the Atlantic had turned because with the help of radar the Allies were able to find the German U-boats.
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The Allied forces fighting against the Axis Powers in Italy. Hitler was determined to keep the Allies out of Germany. Even with Mussolini's demotion and arrest fighting in Italy continued until the war was over.
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This was the day when the Allied troops invaded Germany-controlled France in Normandy.
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The Soviet army pushed westward across Poland to Berlin and came upon a death camp called Majdanek. The Nazi SS guards tried to cover upon their monsterous crimes but ran out of time and the Soviets saw thousands of prisoners barley alive as well as the worldest largest crematorium.
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Hitler sent his troops to recapture the Belgian port of Antwerp and he hoped that this would demoralize his the Allies. German tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory creating a bulge in a last effort attempt to turn the war in their favor. However, this month long battle resulted badly for the Germans causing them to lose many men, guns, tanks, and planes.
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At this conference three leaders dicussed the fate of germany and the postwar world.
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Iwo Jima is critical to the U.S. as a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan.
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President Roosevelt did not get to see V-E Day. He had a stroke and died. Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nation's 33rd president.
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The Allies celebrated V-E Day which stands for victory in Europe. The war in Europe was finally over
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The Japanese unleashed more then 1,900 kamikaze attacks on the Allies during the Okinawa campaign, sinking 30 ships, damaging more than more, and killing more then 5,000 seamen.
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The Manhattan Project was the development of the atomic bomb.
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A B-29 bomber named Enola Gray released an atomic bomb, code named Little Boy, over Hiroshima, an important Japanese Military center. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, leveling half the city.
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The Occupation period was when Japanese soldiers and civilians from abroad were repatriated to Japan, arms industries were dismantled, and political prisoners were released.
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At the end of this trial 12 of the defendants were sentenced to death, and most of the remaining were sent to prison. In later trials of lesser leaders, nearly 200 more Nazis were found guilty of war crimes.
