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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a part of the Pacific Theater in World War II between the US Navy and The Japanese Navy 6 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The battle proved to be a vital turning point during the war and from then on the United States was winning the Pacific Theater. -
D-Day
D-day was the allied assault on Normandy France in order to retake France from German control. over 4,000 allied troops lost their lives in the assault, but their sacrifice allowed for 156 thousand troops to secure the beach and allow for thousands more to land safely and retake France. -
Auschwitz is liberated
During the advance of Soviet forces, they had penetrated far enough into the german territory to liberate thousands of Jews left to die in the concentration camp by evacuating German troops. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 when millions of German troops laid down their arms and released their prisoners of war. -
First successful detonation of the Atomic Bomb
On July 16, 1945, the first nuclear bomb was detonated in the early morning at a military test facility at Alamogordo, New Mexico. House windows more than fifty miles away shattered due to the sheer power of the blast. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
After warning Japan of their powerful bomb and with no surrender the order was made for the first use of a nuclear weapon to be dropped on Hiroshima. it killed approximately 140 thousand people due to the blast and nuclear radiation. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
After receiving no word of surrender from the Japanese military the order was made to drop the next bomb on Nagasaki, resulting in the death of 74 thousand people. -
V-J day
After the bombing of Nagasaki, the Emperor of Japan accepts the Potsdam terms and agrees to an unconditional surrender on August 10th, the official announcement of their surrender was made on the 14th becoming V-J day. -
NATO
the North Atlantic Treaty was created in 1949 by the United States Canada, and many Western European countries to provide security against the growing prowess of the Soviet Union. -
The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb
Once the Soviet Union had detonated their first nuclear bomb this set off the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war and ultimately resulted in MAD (mutually assured destruction) between the two parties if they decided to go to war. -
The Korean War begins
Once communist troops crossed the 38th parallel in an attempt to reunify Korea, the Korean war began and resulted in UN troops being deployed to push back the North Korean advance.