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Japanese attack on perl harbor
On Sunday Deember 7th 1941 the united states was surprised by a japaneese attack at pearl harbor. Causing lots of damage to the american navel fleet. The attack lasted a few hours and it was a day that will "live in infanny". -
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Key American Events Of WWII
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Battle of the Java Sea
the Japanese navy crushed a fleet of Australian, British, Dutch, and U.S. warships that had been trying to block a Japanese invasion of Java. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japaneese forced on its way to attach Port Moresby, New Guinea, seized Tulagi Island, one of the Solomon Islands -
Battle of MIdway
Seek- ing to crush the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Japan launched a two-pronged attack. One unit seized two of the Aleutian Islands, near Alaska. -
Battle of el Alamein
both fought in 1942. The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed - but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition. -
Invasion of Italy
Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group during the Second World War. -
Operation overload AKa D-Day
Nearly 5,000 troop transports, landing craft, and warships carried some 150,000 U.S., British, and Canadian soldiers across the Channel. -
Battle of Bulge
200,000 Germans attacked an initial U.S. force of about 80,000 troops. By January 1945 it was clear that the German offensive had failed. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
it was also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history. -
Yalta Conference
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta Conference to plan for the postwar peace. At the conference Stalin pledged to declare war on Japan three months after Germany’s surrender. They agreed to divide and occupy Germany after the war and outlined plans for a new international peace organization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa
codenamed Operation Iceberg,was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland -
V.E.Day- Vetory in Europe
was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
Little Boy
dropped on Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. The second, the "Fat Man", was dropped three days later on Nagasaki. -
Manhattan Project
research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District; "Manhattan" gradually superseded the official codename,"Development of Substitute Materials", for the entire project. Along the way, -
Fat Man
It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date, and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. The name also refers more generically to the early nuclear weapon designs of U.S. weapons based on the "Fat Man" model. -
Surrender of Japan
brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
