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Pearl Harbor
An inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the southern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It became the site of a naval base after the United States annexed Hawaii in 1900. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the base, and the United States entered World War II the following day. -
The Battle of the Atlantic
Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along the East coast. The German aim in the Battle of the Atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In the first few, the Germans sank 87 ships off the Atlantic shore. The allies responded by putting their ships into convoys. -
War Plans
Prime Minister Churchill arrived at the White House and spent three weeks working out war plans with President Roosevelt. He saw Germany and Italy as a greater threat, so he persuaded Roosevelt to strike against Hitler. -
Doolittle raid
was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Island (specifically Honshu) during World War ll -
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The main forces, the Americans and Australians stopped the Japanese drive toward Australia. Fighting was done from airplanes. -
The Battle of Midway
The turning point for the Pacific War. Allies began “island hopping.” Island by island they won territory back from the Japanese -
The Battle of the Stalingrad
Hitler hoped to capture Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains. He also wanted to wipe out Stalingrad, a major industrial center. For weeks the Germans pressed in on them, conquering it house by house. January 31, 1943, The German commander surrendered. Soviets lost 1,100,000 soldiers. -
North African Front
107,000 Allied troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. They chased the Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel. After months, the last of the Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943. -
The Italian Campaign
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D-Day
The day the 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 ll. -
Liberation of the death camps
The soviets saw the conditions of the Nazi death camps and came to liberate them -
Battle of the Bulge
The last major Nazi battle against the Allies in World War ll. Hitler convinced himself that the alliance between Britain, France, and America was not strong enough and that a major attack and defeat would break up the alliance -
Iwo Jima
70,000 marines converged on the tiny island and 4 days later captured Mount Suribachi. Critical for a base for the US -
Okinawa
U.S. Marines invaded Okinawa and lost 7,600 people in the process. -
Roosevelts death
While posing for a portrait, he had a stroke and died. Harry Truman then became our president. -
Hiroshima
bomber released an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese military center. Seconds later every building collapsed into dust -
Nagasaki
Japan leaders wouldn’t surrender so a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, leveling half the city. -
Nuremberg Trials
Were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany.
