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Below you will see some links that give you a list of the battles and major events of World War 2. Focus especially on these events if you are working on a term paper:

Pacific Theater of Operation

  • Sino-Japanese War 2
  • Oil Embargo placed on Japan by the USA
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Guam, Midway
  • Attack on Australia and Dutch East Indies
  • Biggest Island battles of Philippines beginning and ending of war, Guam, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
  • The Death March of Bataan and cruelty done to POWs both civilian and military personnel - many countries had POW camps that the Japanese committed atrocities - Borneo Camp had the worst atrocities
  • The Manhattan Project and testing of Atom Bomb
  • Atom Bombs dropped on Japan
  • Pay attention to General MacArthur, General Hap Arnold, the Marine Generals, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Halsey, Admiral Fletcher, Admiral Spruance
  • Admiral Yokohama, Prime Minister Hideki and Emperor Hirohito
  • Surrender of the Japanese on USS Missouri on 9-11-45 (make a note of the 9-11 date in comparison to the 9-11-01 attack and the Pearl Harbor attack)

European Theater of Operation

  • The Holocaust
  • The Rise of the Nazis
  • RAAF British attacks on Luftwaffe in Battle of Britain
  • Battle of France
  • The Blitz
  • Preparation for invasion of Normandy and Operation Fortitude
  • Invasion of Italy and war there
  • Invasion of Africa in Western Africa, Northern Africa and Eastern Africa
  • Carpet Bombing of Europe and Germany
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • Pay attention to General Patton, General Brady, Field Marshall Montgomery and General Eisenhower
  • The Normandy Invasion
  • The Battle of the Bulge, Rhine and Berlin
  • The battle of Stalingrad and Operation Barbarossa
  • POW camps of Allied POWs US camps of Russian and Italian POWs
  • The BIG 3; Soviet Leader Josef Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt
  • Adolf Hitler, His generals and his suicide
  • The double surrender of Nazi Germany to Russia and the Western Allies

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