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Key American Events of WWII
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Battle of the Java Sea
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 Coral Sea
Key battle out in the Pecific against the Japanese.American and British fleats stopped the Japanese offensive on Australia. The allies destroyed one carrier and damaged one other carrier alnog with several aircraft. -
Battle of Midway
Japan launched a two-pronged attack. One unit seized two of the Aleutian Islands, near Alaska. -
Guadalcanal
American marines waded ashore at Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands.n November the Japanese sent a huge fleet to the Solomons. They hoped to recapture Guadalcanal, but the U.S. fleet defeated the Japanese in a bloody battle. -
Invasion of Italy
They stayed Sicily in a little more than a month.
In June 1944 the Allies marched into Rome, making it the first Axis capital to fall. -
Opperation Overlord/ D-Day
U.S. troops landed at Normandy.Planes dropped airborne troops and bombed roads, bridges, and German troop concentrations. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans attacked an initial U.S. force.The U.S. 101st Airborne Division defending the Belgian town of Bastogne was completely surrounded But the Allies had everything under control and had the German Retreating fast. -
Yalta Conference
plan for the postwar peace, They focused on how they would divide and occupy Germany. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines attacked the island of Iwo Jima, only a few thousand miles from Tokyo.Japanese forces fought as fiercely as ever. But the Us. still won -
Battle of Okinawa
The Japanese troops dug in deeply and fought to the death.A main part of this battle was the kamikaze, or suicide planes.he U.S. troops had to attack and subdue caves. -
V-Day/ Victory Day
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, marked the formalend of a brutal war that had held Europe in its grip for more than five years. -
Atomic Bomb
Commander Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
