WAS AN INVASION OF POLAND BY GERMANY, THE SOVIET UNION, AND A SMALL SLOVAK CONTINGENT THAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE.

THE LEND-LEASE ACT WAS THE PROGRAM UNDER WHICH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPPLIED THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE SOVIET UNION, CHINA, FREE FRANCE, AND OTHER ALLIED NATIONS WITH MATERIEL BETWEEN 1941 AND 1945. IT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW ON MARCH 11, 1941, A YEAR AND A HALF AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE IN SEPTEMBER 1939 BUT NINE MONTHS BEFORE THE U.S. ENTERED THE WAR IN DECEMBER 1941.

AN ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR BY THE JAPANESE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES

AND WAS THE DECISIVE ENGAGEMENT IN A SERIES OF NAVAL BATTLES BETWEEN ALLIED AND IMPERIAL JAPANESE FORCES DURING THE MONTHS-LONG GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS DURING WORLD WAR II.

BATTLE OF MIDWAY WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT NAVAL BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN OF WORLD WAR II.

LANDINGS BY THE BRITISH,AMERICAN, CANADIAN, AND FRENCH TROOPS TO CONVINCE HITLAR THAT THE LANDINGS WOULD ACTUALLY OCCUR TO THE NORTH AT THE PAS-DE-CALAIS.

GERMANY SURRENDERED TO BERLIN AND HITLER AND A NUMBER OF HIS FOLLOWERS COMMITTED SUICIDE

YALTA CONFERENCE WAS THE WORLD WAR II MEETING OF THE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE SOVIET UNION, REPRESENTED BY PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL, AND GENERAL SECRETARY JOSEPH STALIN, RESPECTIVELY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING EUROPE'S POST-WAR REORGANIZATION. THE CONFERENCE CONVENED IN THE LIVADIA PALACE NEAR YALTA, IN THE CRIMEA.

IWO JIMA WAS A MAJOR BATTLE IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FOUGHT FOR AND CAPTURED THE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA FROM THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. THE AMERICAN INVASION HAD THE GOAL OF CAPTURING THE ENTIRE ISLAND, INCLUDING ITS THREE AIRFIELDS, TO PROVIDE A STAGING AREA FOR ATTACKS ON THE JAPANESE MAIN ISLANDS.

THE BOMBS WERE IN JAPAN WERE CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FINAL STAGES OF WORLD WAR II IN 1945. THESE TWO EVENTS REPRESENT THE ONLY USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN WAR TO

TOKYO TRIALS WERE JAPANESE CRIMES

THE NUREMBERG TRIALS WERE A SERIES OF MILITARY TRIBUNALS, HELD BY THE ALLIED FORCES OF WORLD WAR II, MOST NOTABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL, MILITARY, AND ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP OF NAZI GERMANY.