text: 1) Krystal Nacht- (the night of broken glass) It was a night at the begginning of the Nazi regime in which the SS vandalized business owned by Jews.\n2) D-Day- the landing of Allied troops at Normandy. This was the first entrance of US troops in the European theater.  It was met with heavy casualties on both sides.  \n3) Pearl Harbor- Japanese kamikaze (sp?) pilots bombed the US naval base in Hawaii in Dec. 1942 hurling the US into war with Japan.\n4) A-bomb- The US dropped the world's first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan, ending the war in the Pacific. \n5) raising the flag at Iwo Jima- US Marines captured the Island of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific, a vital control point in the theater. A national monument in DC depicts the picture taken for Time magazine showing the flag being raised. This was, however, the second flag to go up.\n\nThose are the only ones I can think of. Wikipedia will have info on each of those in more detail.  Try also V-Day and the signing of the Neuremburg Treaty as number 6 and 7.