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battle of atlantic
-German boats were sinking unprotected U.S and alies cargo ships
-used convoys for protection
-used sonar to detect german ships -
Battle of stalingrad
-soviets lost 1, 100,000 people in this fight
-hitler captured the soviets oil feilds
-germans controlled 9/10 cities -
Pearl Harbor
-Japan attacks pearl harbor
-japan viewed this as a victory aganist the U.S
-2,400 of the U.S. militery and civilians were killed -
Battle of the coral sea
-U.S and austrailia stopped japan from invading
-japan won the actual battle but the allies were able to stop them from invading -
battle midway
-Admirl chester nimitz intercepted japanese code
-U.S launched a suprise attack on japan at pacfic island called midway -
Norrmandy invasion
-3,000,000 alies attacked
-soviets pused into polland
-alies pushed into italy -
battle of bulge
-germans broke threw american lines
-germans were winning but ended up losing
-120,000 germans died, and 80,000 americans died -
Yalta confernce
-Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met in Yalta to discuss post WWII
-set up united nations -
Iwo Jima
island in the pacfic critical for U.S to win
-U.S won -
the end of hitler
-eva braun committed suicide
-hitler shot himslef
-bodies burned -
VE day
-General Eisenhower accepted a surrenderd
-V-E day vitory day
-1st part of war was over -
battle of okinawa
-japans last strong hold defense
-1 900 kamcazi attacks -
postam,
-Drew up a blueprint to disarm Germany and eliminate the Nazi regime
-Japan must “unconditionally surrender” -
man hattin project
-attomic bomb
-dropped on japan -
V-J day
japans unconditional surrender