WWII Turning Points/Manhattan Project

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

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Midway

• Guadalcanal

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

• Battle of the Bulge

• Kursk

• Stalingrad

• D-Day

1st major “offensive” battle by the Allies against Japan; prevented Japan from invading Australia

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Guadalcanal

• Okinawa

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

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa

• Guadalcanal

• Midway

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

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Hiroshima

• Iwo Jima

Allied invasion of Europe by landing in France; Allowed Allies to open a 2nd front against the Axis powers

• Operation Overlord (D-Day)

• Stalingrad

• Dunkirk

• Battle of the Bulge

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

• Stalingrad

• Kursk

• El Alamein

• Operation Overlord

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

• El Alamein

• Sicily

• Normandy

• Stalingrad

Air force battle in which Germany failed to invade and destroy Great Britain

• Battle of Britain

• Dunkirk

• Battle of the Bulge

• MIdway

Code name for the program to develop the 1st atomic bomb

• Manhattan Project

• Chicago Project

• Brooklyn Project

• Los Alamos Project