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was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" detonated over Nagasaki and Hiroshima, respectively.
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was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy.
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There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942. It is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two
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was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
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was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group.
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was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
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decisive air and sea battle of World War II that crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet, permitted U.S. invasion of the Philippines, and reinforced the Allies’ control of the Pacific.
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was 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.
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.
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was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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The battle of Okinawa proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. Thirty-four allied ships and craft of all types had been sunk, mostly by kamikazes, and 368 ships and craft damaged.
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he day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe.
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is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II,
