The European Theater
During Operation Overlord, the allies stormed this beach to retake France.
What is Normandy Beach?
This battle was key in stopping Japanese advancement toward Australia.
What was the Battle of the Coral Sea?
What major event happened between the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference.
What was the death of FDR?
U.S. Congress declared war and entered WW2 on this date.
When was December 8, 1941?
The Nuremberg Trials tried German generals for these types of crimes.
What were war time crimes and genocide?
This battle was the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This U.S. general was forced to surrender his troops in the biggest surrender in American history, and left vowing that he would be back.
Who was general MacArther?
This treaty ended the war in the European theater.
What is the Paris Peace Treaties?
This date marks Victory in Europe day.
When was May 8, 1445?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two cities.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This battle was the last German offensive of the European theater.
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
This battle is considered the turning point in the Pacific Theater.
What was the Battle of the Midway?
This treaty ended the war in the Pacific.
What is the Treaty of San Francisco?
When was December 7, 1941?
What is the United States?
What is the Soviet Union?
This was the first amphibious invasion of the European theater.
What is Operation Torch?
This battle gave the allied bombers access to Japan without a carrier ship.
What was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
These were four important decisions made at the Potsdam Conference.
What was Poland's borders being finalized?
What was the Potsdam Declaration (an ultimatum Truman gave Japan)?
What was the plan to formally demilitarize Germany?
What was the plan to have Germany pay reparations?
This was the day Europe celebrated VJ Day.
When was August 15, 1945?
This is the name of the Constitution Japan adopted under U.S. occupation.
What was The MacArther Constitution?
Winston Churchill declared this battle “undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war.”
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This was the first major allied offensive in the Pacific Theater.
What was the Guadalcanal Campaign?
These were five key decisions made at the Yalta Conference.
What is Germany splitting into four sectors?
What is Berlin splitting into four sectors?
What is Staling promising free and fair elections?
What is Stalin promising to help the allies in their war with Japan?
What is the United Nations?
This date is VJ Day in America.
When was September 2, 1945?
1. No more common enemy
2. Everyone else is decimated, except for the U.S. and the USSR, who came out as global superpowers
3. Tensions at Yalta Conference
4. The creation of the Atomic Bomb led to an arms race