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Manhattan Project
Research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
U- boats
Patrolled the Pacific and the Caribbean sinking more than 3,500 merchant ships and killing 10,000 of seamen.
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Early war in the Pacific
The Pacific War saw the Allied powers pitted against the Empire of Japan, the latter briefly aided by Thailand and to a much lesser extent by its Axis allies, Germany and Italy. -
General Douglas MacArthur
Loses Phillippines, Guam, Hong Kong, Wake Island, and Austria. -
Bataan Death March
Japanese troops forced the sick and malnourished prisoners of war, or POWs, to march 55 miles up the Bataan Peninsula ro reach a railway that took them inland where they were forced to march 8 more miles. More than 7,000 American and Filipino troops died durng the grueling jpurney. -
Japan dominated Southeast Asia and Western Pacific
Through out the Pacific, Japanese forces attacked and conquered. These advances secured important oil and rubber supplies for Japan, and brought Souteast Asia and the Western Pacific securely under Japanese control. American military leaders divised a plan for a nightime bombing raid from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hoornet led by Colonel James Dolittle. Successful American raid on Tokyo shocks the Japanese. -
Battle of Coral Sea
Outcome of battle between Allied aircraft carriers and Japanese aircraft carriers is inconclusive, but Japan calls of attack on New Guinea.
(4-8 of may) -
Strateric bombing attack battle of Midway
Was the turning point in the war at the Pacific, ending the semingly unstopable Japanese advance. Midway was a new kind of naval battle, the fighting was carried on by swift airplanes that took off from the decks of aircraft carriers to bomb vessels many miles away. -
Stalingrad under siege
Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Allies invasion of North Africa
British had been fighting the Germans and Italians since 1940 to gain North Africa. Stalind had wanted America and Britain to relieve the Soviet Union by establishing a second front in France. -
Women's Army Corps. Foundation
Congres women Edith Nourse Rogers introduced a bill to established a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which became the WAC in 1943 to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, and lab technicians for United States Army. -
Italy surrendered to the Allies
Allies wanted complete control of the Western Mediterrean made it's way for an invasion of Italy and ended the rule of Benito Mussolini and Italy surrendered to the Allies and five weeks later declared war on Germany. -
D-Day Invasion
The day Allies landed on the bitches of Normandy, France. -
Liberation of Paris
Began when the French Forces of the Interior, the military structure of the French Resistance, staged an uprising against the German garrison upon the approach of the US Third Armyy, led by General George Patton. -
Battle of Bulge
Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops.
(16/dec/1944 - 15/jan/1945) -
Mussolini execution
Not wanting to fall into the hands of either the Britsh or the Americans, and knowing that the communist partians, who had been fighting the remnants of roving Italian fascist soldiers and thughs in the north, would try him as a war criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country. -
Hitler commits suicide
Killed himself with a gunshot and when he committed suicide Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies. -
Atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B- 29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city. Three days later, a second B- 29 dropped another A- bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
