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u boats take over guam and wake islands
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a small group carriers launch army aircraft bombed tokyo
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Soviet Union had regained one sixth of the territory it had lost in 1941.
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the British had withdrawn from Burma and focused on the defense of India.
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General MacArthur and Admiral W.F. (Bull) Halsey worked closely together
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Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as premier of Italy.
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This took Italy out of the war, but the Germans, under Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, continued to fight.
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Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands finally fell to United States Marines and Army forces
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General Eisenhower was appointed commander in chief of the Allied armies in the North African theater of operations.
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a United States Marine-Army force invaded the Gilbert Islands.
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were on the defensive everywhere in the Pacific.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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British General William Slim’s 14th Army launched a campaign to drive the Japanese from Burma.
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To escape capture by the Soviets Hitler committed suicide
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a B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, a major munitions center, destroying about three fifths of the city. When the Japanese still refused to surrender, a more powerful atomic bomb was dropped on the port city of Nagasaki, leaving it in ruins. As many as 120,000 people died in these two attacks.
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In Italy Mussolini was caught and shot by partisans
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Japan formally surrendered aboard the battleship Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay.
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Allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany. They demanded that Japan immediately surrender or face utter destruction.
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General MacArthur’s forces in the Pacific landed an invasion force at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, in the Philippines. Effective resistance in Manila ended in late February.
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General MacArthur’s forces in the Pacific landed an invasion force at Lingayen Gulf in Luzon, in the Philippines. Effective resistance in Manila ended in late February.
