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Battle of the Atlantic
Britain (and the Soviet Union) needed supplies. Germany was attacking the supply ships (commerce raiding). Getting those supply ships thru to Britain was the Battle of the Atlantic; if the battle was lost, then Britain might not be saved (Russia could more than handle their own). -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians. -
U.S. joins the war
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Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in the waters southwest of the Solomon Islands and eastward from New Guinea, was the first of the Pacific War's six fights between opposing aircraft carrier forces. It resulted from A Japanese operation to capture Port Moresby located on New Guinea's southeastern coast. If the Japanese had an airbase there, it would threaten northeastern Australia and support plans for expansion into the South Pacific. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Japanese Combined Fleet commander Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto moved on Midway in an effort to draw out and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carrier striking forces. The base at Midway, though damaged by Japanese air attack, remained operational and later became a vital component in the American trans-Pacific offensive. -
D-Day
The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Knowing that the island was of such importance, the Japanese were determined to keep control of it. The tiny island had taken America over one month to take. What the battle did show the Americans was how far the Japanese would go to defend their country – a decision that was to influence the use of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Start of the war in Pacific Theater
The American air force in Europe heads for the war in the Pacific. -
V-E Day
celebrated the end of the war in Europe. -
Hiroshima
The United States drops an atomic bomb—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000. -
Nagasaki
A second atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event
