Battle of Leyte-the allied campaign to free the Philippines from Japanese control
Bombing of Tokyo-destroyed Japanese wartime factories and killed civilians
Battle of Okinawa-the last allied victory in the pacific islands
The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.
Transmission of communicable diseases
Poor growing conditions, droughts, disease, Native Americans, less profit because it costed more to transport crops.