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Japanese bomb attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii
On Sunday Dec. 7th, 1941, the United States was surprised by a japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.Causing lots of damage to the American Naval Fleet. The attack lasted a few hours and it was a day that will forever be remembered in American History. -
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Key American Events of WWII
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Battle of Coral Sea
Was an important Allied victory. Although the Allies lost a carrier, the battle stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. -
Battle of Midway
Second major naval battle in the Pacific. Seeking to crush the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Japan launched a two-pronged attack. One unit seized two of the Aleutian Islands,near Alaska. Meanwhile, the Japanese carried out their main attack against Midway. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of El Alamein
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942. The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein at 30°49′20.89″N 28°57′15.51″E -
Invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied landing on mainland Italy The operation followed the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. The main invasion force landed around Salerno on the western coast in Operation Avalanche, while two supporting operations took place in Calabria and Taranto. -
Operation Overlord - A.K.A. D-Day
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am. In planning, as for most Allied operations, the term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history -
Battle of the Bulge
A major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. -
The Yalta Conference
Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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. -
Battle of Okinawa
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 and two Marine Divisions. -
V.E. Day - Victory 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
Was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 -
Fat Man
Was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date (the other being "Little Boy"), and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. -
Victory over Japan Day
Name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.
