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was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II
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was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II.
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a war, or a phase of a war, in which there is little or no active warfare.
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the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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opposed aid to the Allies in World War II because it feared direct American military involvement in the conflict.
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US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft
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system by which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks
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The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the world. The second is freedoms of every person to worship god in his own way – everywhere in the world.
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was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory,
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represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains.
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was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
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was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
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was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
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a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran.
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World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms
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was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
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a few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte. That day, he made a radio broadcast in which he declared, “People of the Philippines, I have returned!” In January 1945, his forces invaded the main Philippine island of Luzon
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was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany
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was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as vice president.
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was celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
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This once classified photograph features the first atomic bomb
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shows the preparation of the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” atomic bombs on Tinian Island.
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"Fat Man" was the codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end.
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were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
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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
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was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war
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was a United States Navy warship during World War II
