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Lend-Lease
Lean-Lease Act set up a system that would allow the united states to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United states.” -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii -
Japanese Internment campus
the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps -
Battle midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Bataan
The Battle of Bataan was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan during World War II -
Guadacanal
ended all Japanese expansion attempts and placed the Allies in a position of clear supremacy. It can be argued that this Allied victory was the first step in a long string of successes that eventually led to the surrender of Japan and the occupation -
Island-hopping
This practice, skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance, became known as island hopping. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was designed to take pressure off of the besieged Soviet Union by opening a second front in the Mediterranean to divert German attention. It would also give the United States experience fighting Nazi Germany. -
The Italian Camping
Italian campaign, WW2 significance
The elimination of Italy would enable Allied naval forces, principally the Royal Navy, to dominate the Mediterranean Sea, securing the lines of communications with Egypt and thus Asia. -
D-Day
Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation. -
Meeting at Yalta
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe -
Fall of Berlin
the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe -
Meeting at postdam
the Potsdam negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies. -
Hiroshima Nagasaki
the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians