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Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 360 Japanese war planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. Reason why Japan bomb the U.S was because, Japan's only chance was to come by surprise and destroy America's navy as quickly as possible. And they were also mad that the U.S bans iron,steal and oil export with them. Some impact the bombing of Pearl Harbor had the U.S was, it made the U.S preticipate in WWII. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. Bataan Death March refers to the forced march of of USA soldiers taken prisoners by Japanese in Philippines. -
D-Day (Normandy Invasion-1944)
Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. D-Day (Normandy Invasion-1944) took placed because 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.Some impact it had was, it forced the Germans to fight a two front war again just as they had in WWI. -
Battle of the Bulge (1945)
During the Battle of the Bulge Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.The Battle of the Bulge took place because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line. One impact it had was it brought about the end of the German army and the Nazi reign. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps (1945)
On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. In January 1945, Auschwitz was overrun by Russian soldiers. It was the largest extermination and concentration camp, to which over a million people had been deported from all over Europe. Upon liberation, only a few thousand prisoners remained. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Battle of Iwo Jima happened becasue, three U.S. marine divisions landed near the Japanse coast on IwoJima island in February 1945. -
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Okinawa took place in April-June 1945, It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. Battle of Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World WarII -
VE Day (1945)
VE Day (1945), both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. VE Day happened to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the atomic bombs (1945)
President Harry S. Truman ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. -
VJ Day (1945)
Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan's formal surrender. It happened to announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
