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Annexation of sudetenland
sections of northern and western Bohemia and northern Moravia, in the vicinity of the Sudeten mountain ranges. The Sudetenland, which had a predominately German population, was incorporated into Czechoslovakia when that new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. -
Island-Hoping
Island hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Axis powers during World War II. It entailed taking over an island and establishing a military base there. The base was in turn used as a launching point for the attack and takeover of another island. -
The Philippines
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on December 8, 1941, nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States of America controlled the Philippines at the time and possessed important military bases there. -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos is a town in New Mexico, United States that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bomb. Which was the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. ANd was first established during 1942-1943. -
Japanese internment Camps
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066.The United States was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast. This took place during Feb 19, 1942- Mar 20.1946 -
Battle of MIdway
The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The United States Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare. More than two million troops fought in close quarters – and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. -
Guadalcanel
Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. It’s known for its WWII relics, plus dive sites like palm-fringed Bonegi Beach, with 2 two sunken Japanese wartime vessels. West of the capital, Honiara, Vilu War Museum has memorials and WWII aircraft. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Meeting of Yalta
The Yalta Conference, was held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was 73 when he committed suicide. -
Fall of Berlin
The fall of Berlin also known as the battle of Berlin was a designated Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. ... On 23 April General Helmuth Weidling assumed command of the forces within Berlin. This took place during April 16, 1945 – May 2, 1945. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference consisted of the Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima
During World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
