WW2

Axis

Germany, Japan, Italy

Allies

US, Britain, Soviet Union

VE Day

Battle of Bulge- Last Germany Offense.
Gen Eisenhower (Supreme commander of Allies.)

Navajo Code Talkers

Native American Dialect
Never written down.

Midway Battle

Japanese failed surprise attack. Destroyed 4 jap aircraft
Gen Nimitz

Guadalcanal

First Allied win in Pacific. Momentum to island hop.

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Gave us force to launch attack on jap islands

Gen. MacArthur

Commander US Army in Pacific.

Gen. Nimitz

Commander US Pacific Naval and Midway battle

Manhattan Project

Secret mission to develop atomic bomb

Exec Orders 9066

Japan moved to internment camps

Korematsu v US

Rights limited at wartimes for matter of national security

Feb 1945

Yalta Conference
FDR, Stalin and Churchill discuss post war.
Stalin: Divide Germany
FDR: Fight Japan and support US

Holocaust

“Final Solution”
Concentration camps through EU

Nuremberg Trials

1945-1946
Nazi faced “crimes against humanity”
Nuremberg, Germany

Who dropped bomb on Japan

Harry Truman