Turning Points/Manhattan Project

Final major battle in the Pacific; highest casualty rate for U.S. & Japanese

• Guadalcanal

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

Last major “offensive” for Germany & their defeat set up the Allied capture of Germany

• Battle of the Bulge

• Stalingrad

• 2nd Battle of El Alamein

• Normandy Landings

1st major “offensive” battle by the Allies against Japan; prevented Japan from building another base

• Guadalcanal

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

1st major battle to take place on Japanese soil; Allowed U.S. to set up an air base to bomb Japanese mainland

• Guadalcanal

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

Decisive U.S. naval victory against Japan; turning point for the war in the Pacific

• Guadalcanal

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

Largest amphibious landing ever; Allowed Allies to open a 2nd front against the Axis powers

• Battle of the Bulge

• Stalingrad

• Dunkirk

• Normandy (Operation Overlord)

Major Soviet Union victory & turning point for the Eastern Front of WWII

• El Alamein

• Battle of the Bulge

• Normandy Invasion

• Stalingrad

1st major victory for British forces in Egypt; Led to invasion of Italy by Allies

• El Alamein

• Dunkirk

• Battle of the Bulge

• Stalingrad

Code name for the project to develop the 1st Atomic bomb:

• Brooklyn Project

• Manhattan Project

• Los Alamos Project

• Chicago Project

Lead scientist for the Manhattan Project:

• Albert Einstein

• Enrico Fermi

• Leslie Groves

• Robert Oppenheimer