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Annexation of Sudetenland
Article-https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcwngwEaP_0
Instead of Hitler taking Sudetenland he annexed the whole country of Czechoslovakia. The government declared martial law and many Autrains were of German descent. -
Pearl Harbor
Artlcle-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kSnlS4xX8
Japanese aircraft attacked on December 7 1941 to crush our military. Used aircraft carriers to transfer the airplanes because fuel was an issue. -
Island-Hopping
Article-https://www.historycrunch.com/island-hopping.html#/
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBgxW3H_tsI
Strategy of capturing island and going to other island near by. The United States used island hopping against to invade Japan. -
Japanese Internment Camps
Article-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M
Camps against the Japanese because the United States were scared of Japanese spies. Which created the Executive order 9066 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Midway
Article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-midway
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-au50GxIXw
Took place from June 3 to June the 7 1942 between the Japanese and the Americans. The Japanese surprised the United States by attacking the Coral island. -
Guadalcanal
Artcle-https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzCTvSQ4JY
The first victory for the United States against Japan on land. This gave the United States control of Australia and New Zealand supply lines. -
Stalingrad
Article-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7HeYmR7M0
Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 which he had 1.5 million troops and bombed every city. Once the Germans took over Stalingrad the Soviets bombed their own city. -
D-Day
Article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/d-day-allies-invade-europe
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wg5x5WaZPo
Attack on Hitler's Nazi Empire was called operation overload. Which was the turning point of the war on June 6 1994. -
The Philippines
Article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVJB1XWWLg
Commander general Douglas MacArthur was the one in charge during the fall of the Philippines. Which were the Luzon peninsula and Correggio that was involved in the fall of the Philippines. -
Meeting at Yalta
Article-https://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZdgjY8I7E
Meeting of the Big Three on February 1945 which would decide what would happen to Europe and Germany after WW2. Which were the Prime Minister Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and President Roosevelt. -
Fall of Berlin
Article-https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52572544
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCiHGcJzFg
A battle that began on April 16 1945 and ended on May 2 1945. Battle of the soviets to end Hitlers power and rule. -
Death of Hitler
Article-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler-1
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p92hZ1ye8A
Hitler killed himself and his wife which they swallowed a pill of cyanide and shot himself. They killed themselves underground in a bunker in Berlin. -
Los Alamos
Article-https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLb1O_W5Oyw
Young scientist named by Phillip Morrison worked on the Manhattan Project with other scientists. This would be the place for the worlds first atomic bomb. -
Meeting at Potsdam
Article-https://www.britannica.com/event/Potsdam-Conference
Video- https://www.britannica.com/video/180248/Overview-Potsdam-Conference
The big three that took part in the conference were President Harry Truman represented the USA, Winston Churchill represented the UK, and Josef Stalin represented the USSR. Which they digressed about soviet policy in eastern Europe, Germany's reparations, and punishing the Germans. -
Hiroshima
Article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso
First city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6 1945. The airplane which dropped Little boy was called Enola Gay. -
Sources
1)https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
2)https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/d-day-allies-invade-europe
3)https://www.historycrunch.com/island-hopping.html#/
4)https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan
5)https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation