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Lend Lease
This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDyho6AZ6A) -
The Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was the statement of principles agreed to by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain at their first wartime conference, August 9-12, 1941.
The Atlantic Charter was a declaration issued by the United States and Britain, in which they stated to seeking no territorial gain in the war, respecting the principles of free trade among nations and the right for people to choose their governments. -
The Pearl Habor
Pearl Harbor attack, surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. -
Battle of Bataan
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they invaded Luzon, Philippines in January 1942. Despite insufficient supplies, American and Filipino troops were able to fight for three months. Eventually, they surrendered to Japanese troops and were forced into the Bataan Death March—where some of the most horrific war crimes were committed by the Japanese. -
Japanese Internment Camps
The first internment camp in operation was located in east-central California. Between 1942 and 1945 a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans. The camps were surrounded by barbed-wire fences patrolled by armed guards who had instructions to shoot anyone who tried to leave. Although there were a few isolated incidents of internees' being shot and killed, as well as more numerous examples of preventable suffering, the camps generally were run humanely. -
Battle of Midway
One of Japan’s main goals during World War II was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory in east Asia and the southwest Pacific islands.
Battle of Midway, World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
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Battle of Guadalcanal
The initial amphibious assault on the southern, represented a superb coordination of Allied naval, air, and ground forces. Warships laid down heavy barrages to screen the approach of troop transports and carrier-based planes, and U.S. Army Air Forces bombers softened Japanese defenses. Landing craft took the Marines ashore at key points throughout the islands. The Marines rapidly secured a beachhead on Guadalcanal and captured the almost-complete airstrip that would become Henderson Field. . -
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Operation Torch
The first major Allied amphibious assault during World War II. It involved about 65,000 troops who landed at Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran on the French North African coast. Operation Torch was the first time U.S. troops saw action against Nazi Germany.
Operation Torch offered the opportunity to end the desert war and open the Mediterranean. Operation Torch was the first successful joint venture for British and American troops. The Allies gained the offensive for the first time in three years. -
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Island Hopping
Island hopping was a military strategy of capturing only certain Japanese islands in the Pacific and bypassing others, leading to the Japanese mainland. Battle between the Soviets and Germany in Stalingrad in the summer of 1942; Soviet victory greatly weakened Germany's forces.
The U.S. Navy gains a major strategic victory on the island of Guadalcanal, pushing back the Japanese invasion force in the Solomon Islands. -
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The Italian Campaign
the Allied invasion and conquest of Italy. With the success of operations in North Africa and Sicily, the next logical step for the Allies in the Mediterranean was a move against mainland Italy.The Italian Campaign lasted from 1943 to 1945. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, 60,000–70,000 Allied and over 100,000 German soldiers died. The invasion of Sicily in July 1943 led to the collapse of the Fascist Italian regime and the fall of Mussolini who was incarcerated. -
D-Day
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the code name OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. Over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces. -
Meeting of Yalta
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea , during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.The Allied leaders came to Yalta knowing that an Allied victory in Europe was practically inevitable but less convinced that the Pacific war was nearing an end. -
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Fall of Berlin
Battle of Berlin, one of the final battles of World War II.
It ended with the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941.the Soviet Union assembled outside Berlin one of the largest concentrations of military power ever seen. Within the city, already repeatedly pounded by Allied bombing, refugees and citizens were protected by a scratch force of stragglers and the remnants of shattered formations, supported by militia. -
Los Alamos
Project Y was the designation for the top-secret design and production of the atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project chose Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, to lead Project Y, which is today better known as Los Alamos.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the laboratory that produced the first atomic bombs used during World War II and home of the primary nuclear weapons research facility in the United States. -
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Meeting at Potsdam
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe. Germany surrendered and the Allied leaders agreed to meet at Potsdam to continue the discussions that had begun at Yalta -
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. One reason was Japan's unwillingness to surrender unconditionally. Japan wanted to keep their emperor and conduct their own war trials and did not want to be occupied by U.S. forces.