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Nuremberg Laws
The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
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death camps
camps built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions. -
munich conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined -
Kristallnacht
also known to as the Night of Broken Glass. At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps -
St. Louis Affair
a ship with 900 jews went to cuba and was turned away, went to US and was turned away, forced to return to Europe, showed world-wide anti-semitism -
Invasion of Poland
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934 -
german invasion of france
German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces -
Dunkirk
Dunkirk was an improtant battle between germany and its allies -
Fall of North Africa
When Italy entered World War II in June 1940, the war quickly spread to North Africa, where her colony of Libya bordered the vital British protectorate of Egypt. On 7 September 1940, Marshall Graziani’s troops began a land offensive. -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters -
Battle of Wake Island
The Battle of Wake Island began with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan* Death March began as a plea for life. Men were tired, weak, and lacking food American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula on West Luzon Island in the Philippines decided that they would not survive much longer in their fight against the Japanese -
coral sea
was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia -
Battle of Midway
was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II -
Guadalcanal
US landings on Guadalcanal met with great initial success. The outnumbered Japanese defenders were quickly overwhelmed, and the airfield under construction -
Battle of Stalingrad
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
invasion of Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis -
Allied invasion of Italy
after the defeat of the Axis Powers in North Africa, there was disagreement between the Allies as to what the next step should be. Winston Churchill in particular wanted to invade Italy, which in November 1942 he called "the soft underbelly of the axis" -
Battle of Tarawa
US code name Operation Galvanic was a battle in the Gilbert Islands, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Tehran Conference
strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
Fall of Rome
On June 4, 1944, US forces entered Rome as the Germans fell back to the Trasimene Line north of the city. The capture of Rome was quickly overshadowed by the Allied landings in Normandy two days later. -
D-Day
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. -
Battle of the Bulge
a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe -
Yalta Conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Iwo Jima
Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and it was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
The Death of PresidentFranklin Roosevelt
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage (leading to stroke) on April 12, 1945 (aged 63) while on a vaction in Warm Springs, Georgia where he had his "little white house". -
Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in -
VEday
Germany surrenderd to europe -
Enola Gay
bombed hiroshima -
Bombing of Tokyo
often referred to as a "firebombing", was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War -
Trinity test
It was a test of an implosion-type bomb at Alamagordo in New Mexico. -
Potsdam Conference
the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the target of the United States' second atomic bomb attack -
VJ Day
the day on which Japan surrendered, VICTORY OVER JAPAN
