was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire

28 Japanese military and politHical leaders were charged with Class A crimes, and more than 5,700 Japanese nationals were charged with Class B and C crimes

THE BATTLE OF BERLIN, DESIGNATED THE BERLIN STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE OPERATION BY THE SOVIET UNION, WAS THE FINAL MAJOR OFFENSIVE OF THE EUROPEAN THEATRE OF WORLD WAR II.

was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin

was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945

Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy

surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor

The landings were conducted in two phases: an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany

The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. The two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.

by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe