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The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. -
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy -
On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise air attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Japanese forces also overran Allied possessions -
The Battle of Midway was a 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 and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a 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 -
Operation Torch November 8-16 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. -
Established in June 1943, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section, consisting of approximately 345 men and women representing 14 nations -
The Battle of Kursk, also called the Battle of the Kursk Salient, was a 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 -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. -
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive or Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945 -
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
March 26, 1945. Iwo Jima is declared secure after heavy casualties, with nearly 6,900 Americans and 20,000 Japanese killed. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) died on April 12, 1945 from a cerebral hemorrhage while at his "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia. The 63-year-old president collapsed while sitting for a portrait, shocking the nation less than three months into his fourth term. His death occurred just as World War II was nearing its end -
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and also ingesting a cyanide capsule on April 30, 1945. -
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare, conducted by the United States on August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II. The uranium-fueled "Little Boy" bomb detonated over the city, killing tens of thousands immediately and leading to many more deaths from severe burns, blast injuries, and radiation poisoning -
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place on August 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man," on the Japanese port city. It was the second and final use of a nuclear weapon in warfare