Modern Era
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945): The Marines and Mount Suribachi
US victory after five weeks of fighting; almost the entire Japanese garrison was killed, and the island's airfields were used by American aircraft for the rest of the war.
Era · c. 1800 – 1945
Modern Era
Industry, science and global conflict: the century and a half that built the modern world.
Modern Era
Yalta Conference (1945): Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
The Allies agreed on zones of occupation for Germany, a new frontier and government formula for Poland, the voting rules of the United Nations and Soviet entry into the war against Japan.