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Battle of Britain
the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, leading to the United States' entry in World War II. -
Battle of Midway
Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of Stalingrad
a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
was established in 1943 under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
Battle of Kursk
a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front between July and August 1943. -
D-Day
the planning and execution of the Normandy invasion during World War II. -
Battle of The Bulge
a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
was an 82-day-long battle that lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
Death of FDR
Died from cerebral hemorrhage -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasak.
