European Theater
This is the reason the Allies bombed civilian targets in WWII.
To force citizens to want surrender.
This battle was a major carrier defeat for Japan in the middle of the Pacific.
Battle of Midway.
This was a common defense of German war criminals at Nuremberg.
The Allies needed to open a second front in Europe for this reason.
Did not want the Soviets to capture all of Germany.
Soviets were taking all the heat from Germany.
Italy was not a soft underbelly.
This US strike on Japan killed 100,000 in one night with 279 strategic bombers.
This was the only condition of Japan's surrender.
This was the codename for the invasion at Normandy on D-Day.
Operation: Overlord.
These were Japan's three major disasters in August 1945.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
This event killed the majority of Europe's Jewish population.
Holocaust.
This critical battle in Russia cost the Germans a whole army and 800,000 casualties.
Stalingrad.
This was the American strategy for defeating the Japanese in the Pacific.
Island hopping.
This man led the Manhattan Project.
J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The Germans started losing the war in this year.
1943.
This early event in the Pacific War made the Japanese people upset at their government's lack of invincibility.
Doolittle Raid.
This motivated the US to spend money on the Manhattan Project.
Needed to beat Germany to the bomb.