The suprise attack by Japan on U.S naval base in Hawaii, December 7, 1941. This brought the United States into World War II.
Battle of the Coral Sea
In May 1940, a battle between Japan and the USA; a battle at sea but fought entirely by aircraft carriers. A tactical victory for the United States as the Japanese plan for the invasion of Australia was cancelled.
Dunkirk
Allied soldiers were cut off in northern France by a German armoured advance. Over 330,000 Allied troops caught in the pocket were subsequently evacuated by sea to England. The majority of British troops were able to survive and fight another day.
D-Day
The Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944 — the day on which "Operation Overlord" began commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
Adolf Hitler
Born in Austria, he became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He led the National Socialist German Workers' Party-the Nazi Party-in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933. He led Europe into World War II.
Allies
World War II military alliance of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, China, and 45 other countries
Nagasaki
The second city that an atomic bomb was dropped on by the U.S. during World War II. This lead to Japan's surrender to the Allied Powers.
Operation Barbarossa
The codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Luftwaffe
The German airforce during the Second World War.
Vichy France
Was thought of as a satellite state or "puppet state" of Germany after the fall of France in 1940.
