Allies take control of North Africa and can open a front in Italy.
V-E Day
Hitler loses an ally to the south.
From here we can stage air attacks on Japan
4 Japanese carriers are sunk
Atomic bombs dropped here force Japanese surrender.
Tokyo Bay
Winning this means we can supply our European soldiers more easily.
Iwo Jima
D-Day
Battle of Coral Sea
This is where Japan signs the Unconditional Surrender ending WW2.
Hitler is turned away on the Eastern Front.
The war in Europe is over.
After this Hitler will not recover and the allies march on to Berlin.
Mussolini steps down
2nd to the last stop in the island hopping campaign
America returns to control the Philippines.
Okinawa
Opens a western front in the European Theater.
Battle of the Bulge
1st time the Japanese advance was stopped in the Pacific
Battle of the Atlantic
First Japanese defeat on land
Leyte Gulf
Battle of Midway
Operation Torch
Guadalcanal
Stalingrad
Hiroshima & Nagasaki