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Munich Peace Conference
-The agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland
-Chamberlain had gone to Germany twice in September to discuss this event with Hitler -
NAZI-Soviet Pact
-Non-aggression pact -Also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -
German Invasion of Poland
-WWII begins
-"Blitzkreig" strategy -
Miracle of Dunkirk
-Codenamed "Operation Dynamo"
-Evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches of and harbor of Dunkirk -
Battle of Britain
-Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks
-Described as the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces -
Atlantic Charter
-Joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
-Provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims -
Pearl Harbor attacked
-Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor
-Lasted two hours, but was devastating -
Battle of Midway
-Decisive American victory
-Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
Operation Torch
-The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa
-The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together -
Battle of Stalingrad
-Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
-Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Soft Underbelly Campaign
-Allied invasion of Italy
-Allied victory -
D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France
-Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control
-Codenamed Operation Overlord -
Battle of the Bulge
-last major German offensive campaign of World War II
-The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard -
Yalta Conference
-meeting for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
-goal of conference was to shape a post-war peace -
Iwo Jima
-major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima
-some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War -
Okinawa
-codenamed Operation Iceberg
-series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands -
FDR dies in Office
-cerebral hemorrhage
-collapsed -
VE (Victory in Europe) Day
-mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
-marked the end of World War II in Europe -
VE (Victory in Europe) Day
-mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
-marked the end of World War II in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
-The Big Three
-negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-killed at least 129,000 people -
Japan surrenders (VJ Day)
-Japan surrendered in World War II
-ending the war
