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The Invasion of Poland
the day ww2 officaly started -
The Battle of Britain
air battle between the royal air force against the German Luftwaffe -
The Battle of Stalingrad
major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor -
The Battle of Midway
major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
Operation Torch
Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on a limited scale. -
The Battle of Kursk
major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory -
The Battle of Okinawa
major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army -
D-Day
Day the allies succesfully entered normandy france on Omaha Beach to take france back from the nazis -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Allies won the Battle of the Bulge, resulting in significantly higher casualties on the German side despite their surprise attack on Allied forces -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army -
The Death of FDR
FDR succumbed to a stroke while taking a restful break at Warm Springs, Georgia, the polio treatment center he had created in the late 1920s -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf hitler commited suicide in his bunker as the allies were surounding him -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The uranium bomb named little boy detonated over Hiroshima and had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT -
Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
bombing on Nagasaki using the Fat Man atomic bomb