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Pearl Harbor
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the base, and the United States entered World War II the following day.An inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the southern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It became the site of a naval base after the United States annexed Hawaii in 1900. -
Battle of Coral Sea
An arm of the southwest Pacific Ocean bounded by northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was the scene of a U.S. World War II naval victory in May 1942. -
Battle of Midway
On 2 June 1942 the Japanese combined fleet under the direction of Yamamoto on the super-battleship Yamato was committed to an elaborate ocean-wide operation with three objectives. -
First Battle of Alamein
fought on the northern coast of Egypt between Axis forces Germany and Italy of the Panzer Army Africa Panzerarmee Afrika commanded by Field Marshal Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, unexcelled for sustained violence on land, sea, and in the air in World War II, lasted for six months: August 1942 to February 1943. -
Second Battle of Almein
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Invasion of Italy
the longest campaign by the Western Allies in World War II. Following Italy's surrender in July 1943, Josef Stalin demanded opening a second front in the west. -
D-Day
The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II June 6, 1944. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Decisive air and sea battle of World War II that gave the Allies control of the Pacific. After the U.S. amphibious landing on the Philippine island of Leyte Oct. 20 -
Battle of the Bulge
In World War II, the last German offensive on the Western Front, an unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany. The bulge refers to the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines. -
The Yalta Coference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, 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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
penultimate island invasion of the Pacific campaign and possibly the most intense battle of WW II, where Nimitz said that ‘uncommon valor was a common virtue -
V.E. Day
May 8, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe. -
Battle of Okinawa
Landing day for Okinawa, the final land battle of the Pacific War, was Easter Sunday, 1 April 1945. The Landing force was the new Tenth Army under Army Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. -
V.J. Day
August 15, 1945, the day that Japan surrendered to terms proposed by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference. The precipitating events were the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 respectively. -
Manhatten Project
A United States project lasting from August 1942 to August 1946, which developed the atomic energy program, with special reference to the atomic bomb.
