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Lend Lease
It was an act that congress approved allowing the president at the time Roosevelt to have unlimited authority to direct military aid to people such as ammunition, airplanes, tanks, trucks and food to the war. -
Atlantic Charter
It was a joint declaration made between the United States and between Great Britain that set a view into the postwar world. Later on some allied groups decided to support it as well. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Japanese. This attack brought the U.S into WWII. The Japanese used the code name "Operation Hawaii" for the attack on Pearl Harbor but later changed it to "operation Z" Their attack damaged our navy battleships. Thousands of Americans were killed and a thousand more wounded from this attack. -
Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway took place between June 4-7 1942. During this World War II naval battle, it was 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. -
Island hopping
Island hopping took place August 7th 1942. This happened during the battle of Guadalcanal. General Douglas MacArthur planned to do this "island hop" past the Japanese strongholds in order to seize weakly defended islands closer to Japan. It was also known as leap frogging. The idea behind this was was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. -
Bataan
The battle of Bataan was fought between 7 January – 9 April 1942 and it was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan during World War II. This battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during the second war WWII. -
Operation Torch
This was an allied invasion of French North Africa. The operation marked the first time that British and American forces worked together on an invasion plan. The United States had been at war against the Axis for almost a year, but had yet to come to grips with German or Italian ground forces. -
Guadacanal
This was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. By seizing a strategic airfield site on the island, the United States halted Japanese efforts to disrupt supply routes to Australia and New Zealand. -
D-Day
D-day took place on June 6th 1944. It was also known as the Invasion of Normandy. D-day is when the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
The Italian Campaign
The Italian Campaign lasted from 1943-1945. This became a costly WW2 battlefield with thousands of casualties involving iconic battles like the landings at Anzio, and the fighting for Monte Cassino. It was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. -
Meeting at Yalta
The meeting of Yalta took place between February 4-11th 1945. This is where U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula. These Allied leaders discussed the postwar fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe, the terms of Soviet entry into the ongoing war in the Pacific -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos took place July 16th 1945. It was the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. By this time, Hitler had been defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued an aggressive war. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The meeting at Potsdam took place between July 17- August 2nd 1945. This meeting was the last of the big three meetings during WWII. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman all attended this meeting .At the end of the conference, the three heads of government agreed on the different actions to be taken. -
Japanese Internment camps
These Japanese Interment camps lasted from 1942-1945. This was where the policy of the U.S. government had people of Japanese descent be interred in isolated camps. These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. They were forced relocation by the U.S. government thousands of Japanese Americans to go to detention camps during World War II. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
This took place between August 6th-9th 1945. The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. The city of Nagasaki was one of the biggest seaports in Japan making it the perfect place to drop the bomb. When japan didn't surrender after the dropping of the first bomb in Nagasaki they dropped another bomb in Hiroshima. This made Japan surrender due to the damage it caused. -
Fall of Berlin
The fall of berlin was a bloody affair from any angle military or civilian. As the Red Army noose placed a stranglehold on those unfortunate enough to still reside in the German capital. Some 200,000 German soldiers remained, along with some 2,000,000 German civilians.