history ww2

  • bombing of pearl harbor

    the Japanese bombed the us naval station in Hawaii to try to weaken the us navy but made the us declare war
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    Battle of Midway

    naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942
  • Siege at Stalingrad

    The largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
  • Operation Torch

    American invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War
  • Battle of El Alamein

    a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein
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    Battle of the Bulge

    was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day, is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on the 8 May
  • Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945
  • Formal Japanese Surrender on USS Missouri

    The Japanese gave formal surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki