| A | B |
| when Germany attacked Belgium trying to get France to prevent a 2-front war | The Battle of Marme |
| after battle of Marme when Germany tried to break the stalemate | Battle of Verdun |
| when Allies tried to break stalemate after Marme | Battle of the Sommne |
| after USSR dropped out of the war, germany tried to be successful but instead lost att this battle | Battle of Argonne Forest |
| when Japanese attacked US for cutting off their oil supply | Pearl Harbor |
| the Allied assult on Europe from South | Operation Torch |
| D-Day / largest and amphibious assult in History led by Eisenhower | Operation Overload |
| Hitler's final solution to Jew's / genocide of European Jewry | Holocaust |
| battle with Japan faught only on carriers | Battle of Coral Sea |
| great air battle in which US crippled Japan's carrier fleet and began to turn the tide | Battle of Midway |
| first major marine landing in Japan, long battle | Battle of Gaudalcanal |
| Largest naval battle ever | Battle of Leyte GUlf |
| battle at which a flag is raised at what aill be the basis for the USMC monument | Iwo Jima |
| place where A-bomb was dropped | Hiroshima |