World War II Review (Part 1)

This was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place in June of 1942, six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Battle of The Atlantic

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Okinawa

He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, then served as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman.

• Douglas MacArthur

• James H. Doolittle

• "Hap" Arnold

• George C. Marshall

Was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union.

• D-Day

• Battle of Berlin

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Midway

Controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role in the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II.

• RAF (British) Bomber Command

• Wright Patterson Air Force Base

• WACO Airfield

• Island of Midway

A German submarine used in World War I and World War II.

• Hunley

• U-boat

• Boomer

• A-boat

Was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

• Marshall Plan

• Operation Torch

• Destroyers-For-Bases Deal

• Appeasement

Was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Iwo Jima

This day celebrates the Nazi unconditional surrender to the Allies of World War II.

• V-J Day

• V-E Day

• Veterans Day

• Independence Day

Five brothers who were killed simultaneously while serving together on the USS Juneau.

• Morris Brothers

• Gross Brothers

• Carter Brothers

• Sullivan Brothers

Was an air raid on April 18, 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago during World War II.

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Operation Torch

• Doolittle Raid

• McPherson Raid