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Bataan Death March
A 65 mile march for Filipino and American troops, thousands died during the march. -
Battle of Midway
A naval battle between Japan and the US. Six months after pearl harbor. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
An armed revolt against Nazis in hopes to stop deportations to extermination camps. -
Operation Gomorrah
This created one of the largest firestorms by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces. The bombing killed 42,600 people and wounded 37,000. -
D-Day Invasion
160,000 allied troops landed on the beach of Normandy. Dwight D. Eisenhower said "We will accept nothing less then a full victory." -
Operation Thunderclap
The plan was to bomb the Eastern German cities to disrupt the transport infrastructure -
battle of iwo jima
3 U.S Marine divisions landed in Feb 1945. Iwo Jima had 23,000 troops guarding the island. U.S forces defeated the Japanese after a month of fighting on the Island. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day -
Battle Of Okinawa
Biggest and the final battle on the pacific islands. 287,000 US troops v.s 130,000 Japenese troops. -
Atomic Bombings
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, these were the only two nuclear weapons used in wartime. -
VJ Day
Victory over japan, they surrendered which ended the war. -
Battle of The Bulge
The goal was to split the allied forces by a sudden blitzkrieg, on December 16th a quarter million troops launched into the Ardennes for battle.
