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The Manhattan project aka the atomic bomb (little boy, fat man)
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. -
Pearl Harbor
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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Key American events of WWII
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Battle of Coral Sea
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. -
Battle of Midway
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. -
Battle of El Alimein
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 -
Battle of Guadacanal
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. -
Invasion of Italy
was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group. -
Operation Overlord (AKA) D-day
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. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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. -
Battle of the Bulge
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. -
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. -
Battleof Iwo Jima
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
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. -
V.E. Day (Victory in Europe)
he day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe. -
V.J. Day
is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II,
