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The Battle of Britain
The name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base -
The Battle of Midway
The United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.[ -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
It was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
The Battle of Kursk
A Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front between July and August 1943. -
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy, France. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire -
The Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
The Death of FDR
He suffered a massive stroke and died. -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
During World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
Was conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. -
The Battle of the Bulge
A major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
