BLOODIEST WAR FOUGHT IN THE PACIFIC, AMERICA TOOK OVER THE ISLAND OF IWO JIMA

charging the defendants with conventional war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.

ENDING THE WAR IN EUROPE, GERMANY SURRNDERED TO BERLIN

THE MEETING WAS INTENDED MAINLY TO DISCUSS THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONS OF WAR-TORN EUROPE. WITHIN A FEW YEARS, WITH THE COLD WAR DIVIDING THE CONTINENT, YALTA BECAME A SUBJECT OF INTENSE CONTROVERSY. TO SOME EXTENT, IT HAS REMAINED CONTROVERSIAL.

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

BETWEEN 4 AND 7 JUNE 1942, ONLY SIX MONTHS AFTER JAPAN'S ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, AND ONE MONTH AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA, THE UNITED STATES NAVY DECISIVELY DEFEATED AN IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (IJN) ATTACK AGAINST MIDWAY ATOLL, INFLICTING IRREPARABLE DAMAGE ON THE JAPANESE FLEET. MILITARY HISTORIAN JOHN KEEGAN CALLED IT "THE MOST STUNNING AND DECISIVE BLOW IN THE HISTORY OF NAVAL WARFARE."

THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON THE STATE OF HAWAII, BOMBS WERE DROPPED AND THE JAPANESE THUGT STHIS WOULD KEEP AMERICA FROM FIGHTING IN TE WAR.

In Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division acted as a police and military force during the Allied occupation of Norway in May 1945, immediately after the victory in Europe during the Second World War. The division maintained law and order until the arrival of the remainder of Force 134, the occupation force. During its time in Norway, the division was tasked with supervising the surrender of the German forces in Norway, as well as preventing the sabotage of vital military and civilian facilities.

Coordinates: 49°27.2603′N 11°02.9103′E 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. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945–46, at the Palace of Justice.

The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 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 date.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War (Polish: Kampania wrześniowa or Wojna obronna 1939 roku) in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss (Case White) in Germany, 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 German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Nomonhan incident on 16 September 1939.[14] The campaign ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.