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Battle of the Atlantic
The longest continuous military campaign in World War II. German U-boats and warships – and later Italian submarines – were pitted against Allied convoys transporting military equipment and supplies across the Atlantic to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. -
Doolittle's Raid on Japan
An air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. -
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Air war over japan
Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. -
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Battle of the coral sea
This four day war marked the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the coral sea with an invasion of port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese landed in the area, they came under attack from the aircraft carrier planes of the American task force commanded by Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher. Even though both sides suffered bad damage the Japanese were left without enough planes to cover the ground. -
Surrender of Corregidor and the Philippines
The successful recapture by the U.S troops during world war two of Corregidor island at the entrance of manila bay in the Philippines which had been surrendered to the Japanese's on may 6th 1942. This marked the fall of the Philippines. -
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Battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on pearl harbor. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. -
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Casablanca conference
The Casablanca Conference was held in the Anfa hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco. The conference lasted from January 14, 1943 to January 24, 1943. The whole point of the conference was to plan the allied European strategy for the next phase of world was 2. -
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Battle for Attu and Kiska
A battle fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island. The main conflict of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II (1939-45), American and Japanese armies fought from May 11 to May 30, 1943, for control of Attu, a small, sparsely inhabited island at the far western end of Alaska’s Aleutian chain in the North Pacific. -
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Battle of the Philippines
The invasion of the Philippines by Imperial Japan and the defense of the islands by the United States and Philippine forces -
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Yalta conference
A meeting between three world ar 2 allies, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Leaders discussed the post-war fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army. it’s believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. -
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Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. -
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Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United states Detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on august 6, 1945 and august 9, 1945. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. These events remain to be the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of japan was announced by Japanese emperor Hirohito on August 15 1945 but was formally singed on September 2 1945. -