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Battle of Britain
The Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against attacks from the German Air Force. This battle was considered the first major military campaign fought entirely by air units. This battle was fought in the British airspace. -
The Military Draft
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio 56 consecutive games with a hit holds the MLB record. Over the span of these two months, he had a .408 batting average with 15 home runs and 55 RBI’s. -
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial located in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Gutzon and his son Lincoln Borglum directed the 60 ft high sculpture. The sculpture cost nearly 1 million dollars. -
Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory with 353 imperial Japanese aircrafts. Four of the eight US battleships sank from the attack, but the USS Arizona was the only battleship that wasn’t recovered. More than 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,178 were wounded during the attack. -
White Rose (Nazis)
The non violent, “intellectual resistance” group was led by a professor and a group of students at the University of Munich in Nazi, Germany. The White Rose denounced the oppression and crimes that the Nazis were inflicting with the murder of the Jews. The majority of the group was penalized with imprisonment or death after the group ended on February 18, 1943. -
D - Day
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Kamikazes
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Hiroshima
The bombing of Hiroshima was in result of the Pearl Harbor attack four years earlier on December 7, 1941. Roughly 120,000 civilians died from the “Little Boy” bomb and 20,000 more soldiers were killed. The bombing caused the survivors to have lack of food and shelter. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research project that took place during WW2 that produced the first nuclear weapons. The project costed around 2 billion dollars and over 130,000 people worked on it throughout the years. More than 90% of the cost was for building the factories, while less than 10% was for the production of the weapons. -
Red Scare
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American Initiative, which the US lended money to over 15 countries in Europe, in order to help rebuild after WW2. The operation last four years and the US helped with removing trade barriers
