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Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
American Declaration of War
America declares WAR on Japan -
Battle of the Coral Sea
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. The battle was the first ever fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Midway
Between 4 and 7 June 1942
is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War -
Battle of Guadalcanal
codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Took place between August 23,1942 and February 2, 1943. It was a major battle during World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa -
D-Day/Battle of Normandy
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe. A.K.A. Invasion of Europe -
Battle of the Bulge
16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive. Launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium -
Battle of Iwo Jima
19 February – 26 March 1945 or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan -
Battle of Okinawa
The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland -
V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
May 8th 1945, was the date the Allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Reich, formally recognising the end of the Second World War in Europe. -
Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki. -
V-J Day (Victory in Japan)
A name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946,held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945–46, at the Palace of Justice. The first and best known of these trials was the Trial of the Major War Criminals -
Establishment of the Nation of Israel
United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization[8] and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine.
