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World War II
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The Battle of Stalingrad
For weeks the Germans pressed in on Stalingrad conquering house by house. Then winter set in and stopped Germany in its track. There was no hope for Germany. They were forced to surrender. -
The United States and Britain Join Forces
Roosevelt told Churchill to come to America at once so they could work togther. -
War Plans
Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt worked together against Japan and Germany. -
Manhattan Project
First Atomic Bomb -
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The Battle of the Atlantic
In the first four months of 1942 Germany sunk 87 ships. Something had to be done or the war at sea would be lost. The US launche a crash shipbuilding program. It didn't end in 1943 but that was the turning point of the battle and things started to go btter for Britain and the US. -
Doolittle's Raid
First air raid by the U.S. to strike the Japanese -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Major Naval battle in WWII -
Battle of Midway
The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII -
The North African Front
107,000 allied troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, Algiers in North Africa. After months of fighting, Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943. -
The Italian Campaign
The Italian campaign got off to a good start with the capture of Sicily in the summer of 1943. Stunned by their army’s collapse in Sicily, the Italian government forced dictator Benito Mussolini to resign. On July 25, 1943, King Victor Emmanuel III summoned Il Duce (Italian for “the leader”) to his palace, stripped him of power, and had him arrested. “At this moment,” the king told Mussolini, “you are the most hated man in Italy.” Italians began celebrating the end of the war. -
D-Day
D-Day was the first day of the invasion of Germany. -
Liberation of Death Camps
Soviet troops were the first to come upon one of the Nazi death camps, in July 1944. The Nazi's tried to hide their crimed but ran out of time. -
The Battle of the Bulge
Americans captured their first German town, Aachen. Hitler responded with a desperate last-gasp offensive. He ordered his troops to break through the Allied lines and torecapture the Belgian port of Antwerp. Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last-ditch offensive its name, the Battle of the Bulge. -
Yalta Conference
Meeting between the big three(Allied Leaders) -
Iwo Jima
Famous as the setting for the battle between U.S. and Japan -
Battle of Okinawa
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Roosevelt's Death
President Roosevelt did not live to see V-E Day. On April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, the pres-ident had a stroke and died. That night, Vice President Harry S. Trumanbecame the nation’s 33rd president. -
Unconditional Surrender
General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich on May 8, 1945. The Allies celebrated V-E Day Victory in Europe Day. The war in Europe was finally over. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bomb dropped on both cities -
Nuremberg Trials
Prosecuted prominent members of the political, military, and economic leaders of the defeated Nazi Germany -
Pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan -
Occupation of Japan
Japan was once again an independent country.
