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Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack naval forces stationed in Hawaii -
Britain and US join forces
After the attack on Pearl Harbor Winston Churchill called Pres. Roosevelt to create the allianc -
War Plans
Churchill works out war plans in the white house for three weeks with Roosevelt and his advisor. Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler -
The Battle of the Atlantic
The battles amongst the Atlantic lasted til mid-1943 -
Doolittle's Raid
Raided Tokyo and other Japanese Cities -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Americans succeeded in stopping Japanese forces from entering Australia -
The Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz scout planes found the Jpanese fleet and sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germans enter Stalingrad and surrendered January 31, 1943 -
North African Front
107,000 allied troops land in North Africa and stayed still Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943 -
The Italian Campaign
After the capture of Sicily the Italian campaigned continued all the way up until 1945 til they were freed -
D-Day
Invasion by the Allied forces -
Liberation of Death Camps
Soviet troops came upon their first Nazi death camp -
Battle of the Bulge
German tank invasion -
Nuremburg Trials
Trials for Nazi war crimes that lasted til 1949 -
The Occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied by the US troops and over 1,000 Japanese were arrested and trialed. -
Yalta Conference
The ally powers pushed through vistory in Europe in the city of Yalta -
Iwo Jima
The US soldiers needed this island for their bombers to reach Japan more easily. It was known for being the most heavily defended spot on Earth for the Axis powers and out of about 20,700 Japanese soldiers only 200 survived -
BAttle for Okinawa
US Marines invaded Okinawa. Japanese release 1,900 kamikaze attacks -
Roosevelt's Death
Died before V-E Day from a stroke and died -
Uncondition Surrender
Soviet Army stormed Berlin -
The Manhattan Project
The first test bomb took place July 16, 1945. The bomb worked and could be seen 180 miles away -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An atomic Bomb landed on Hiroshima and two days later another atomic bomb landed on Nagasaki