IWO JIMA

• Date: February,19,1945
• Month: February
• Year: 1945
• Location: volcano islands
• Summary: Battle of Iwo Jima was a battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army.
• Historical significance: The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East.

TOKYO TRIALS

• Date: 4/29/1946
• Month: April
• Year: 1946
• Summary: Twenty-eight Japanese military and political leaders were charged with Class A crimes, and more than 5,700 Japanese nationals were charged with Class B and C crimes, mostly entailing prisoner abuse.
• Historical significance: Following World War II, the victorious Allied governments established the first international criminal tribunals to prosecute high-level political officials and military authorities for war crimes and other wartime atrocities.

ALLIES CAPTURE OF BERLIN

• Date: 4/16/1945
• Month: April
• Year: 1945
• Summary: Starting on 12 January 1945, the Red Army breached the German front as a result of the Vistula–Oder Offensive and advanced westward as much as 40 kilometres a day through East Prussia, Lower Silesia, East Pomerania, and Upper Silesia.
• Historical significance: The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.

YALTA CONFERENCE

• Date: 2/4/1945
• Month: February
• Year: 1945
• Summary: The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
• Historical significance: These three leaders decided at this conference the fate of Germany after its defeat and the fate of the countries in Eastern Europe.

LEND LEASE ACT

• Date: March 1941
• Year: 1941
• Month: March
• Summary: U.S Congress gave president Roosevelt the power to lend allies military supplies.
• Historical significance: The act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle.

BATTLE OF MIDWAY

• Date: 6/4-7/1942
• Month: June
• Year: 1942
• Location: Midway Island
• Summary: The U.S naval fleet fought the Japanese navy who wanted to destroy the U.S aircraft carriers.
• Historical significance: The battle was won by the U.S. who gained the initiative in the war. It was a major turning point.

PEARL HABOR

• Date: 12/7/1941
• Month: December
• Year: 1941
• Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• Summary: The Japanese launched a surprise attack destroying almost 20 American ships.
• Historical significance: The attack caused the U.S to declare war on Japan and enter WW2.

D-DAY

• Date: 6/6/1944
• Month: June
• Year: 1944
• Summary: The allies launch the largest amphibious attack in history against Germany in occupied France.
• Historical significance: The landings have been called the beginning of the end of the war.

NUREMBERG TRIALS

• Date: 1945-1949
• Month:
• Year: 1945
• Location: Nuremberg, Germany
• Summary: Over four years Nazi war criminals were put on trial for their crimes.
• Historical significance: helped establish an international court for crimes against humanity.

ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

• Date: 7/6/1945
• Month: August
• Year: 1945
• Location: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan
• Summary: the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities and ended the war with Japan's surrender.
• Historical significance: it ended the war but it also killed many innocent Japanese people, it made the U.S. dominant country in the world.

GERMANY INVADES POLAND

• Date: 9/1/1939
• Month: September
• Year: 1939/ Location: Poland
• Summary: Hitler orders the German military to invade Poland.
• Historical significance: its the beginning of WW2 as France and Great Britain declared war against Germany.

BATTLE GAUNADANAL