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World War II - Coggle Diagram

- - - - in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan
  - - - Following an immediate US declaration of war against Japan, supported by one from the UK, the European Axis powers declared war on the United States in solidarity with their ally.
        
        Japan soon captured much of the Western Pacific
    - - Battle of Midway
        
        Japan's advances were halted in 1942 after Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway
        
        The four Japanese fleet carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier—were sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann.Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare"
      - Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union
      - 1943
        
        Key setbacks —which included a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy, and Allied offensives in the Pacific.
        
        These wars cost the Axis its initiative and forced it into strategic retreat on all fronts.
        
        1944
        
        Normandy Landing
        
        This battle announced the beginning of the end of World War II, reversed the unfavorable situation that had lasted for many years in World War II
        
        the Japanese suffered reversals in mainland Asia, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific islands.
        
        1945
        
        The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.
        
        In the wake of the war, Germany and Japan were occupied and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders.
        
        Following the Potsdam Declaration by the Allies on 26 July 1945 and the refusal of Japan to surrender on its terms, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, respectively.
        
        Faced with an imminent invasion of the Japanese archipelago, the possibility of additional atomic bombings, and the Soviet entry into the war against Japan and its invasion of Manchuria on 9 August, Japan announced its intention to surrender on 15 August 1945
        
        The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
        
        The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts, and the victorious great powers—China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States—became the permanent members of its Security Council.