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Stalingrad
industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. -
Death of FDR
Cerebral hemorrhage
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Nuremburg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating antisemitism as a form of scientific racism. -
Munich Conference
The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening -
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. -
St Louis Affair
When the St. Louis arrived in Havana, its Jewish passengers were forbidden to come ashore. -
German Invasion of Poland
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German Invasion of France
The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. -
Dunkirk
. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. -
Philippines Battle
The Philippines Campaign (1941–1942) or the Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941–1942 and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces. -
Pearl Harbor
The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. -
Wake Island
began simultaneously 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 Confrence
meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was for Reinhard Heydrich, chief executor of the Final solution to the Jewish question, to discuss Final Solution policies for Jews with administrative leaders. -
Bataan Death March
was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II -
Coral Sea
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
only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet -
Guadalcanal
was a military campaign fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Invasion of North Africa
The Allies organized three amphibious task forces to seize the key ports and airports of Morocco and Algeria simultaneously, targeting Casablanca, Oran and Algiers. -
Sicily Invasion
A major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis. -
Invasion of Italy
Allied landing on mainland Italy by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group -
Tarawa
the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. -
Tehran Conference
it was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom). -
D-Day
The invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II. At the time it was the largest invasion to ever take place. -
Battle of the Bulge
Was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, 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, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Iwo Jima
major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire -
Okinawa
Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide. -
VE Day
Public holidayto mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
Trinity Test
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation. The test was conducted my the U.S. Army. -
Potsdam Conference
Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. -
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 1945 -
Enola Gay
During the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki remains first and foremost a port city, supporting a rich ship building industry and setting a strong example of perseverance and peace. -
VJ Day
name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event -
Fire bombing of Tokyo
Conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. -
Fall of Rome
There is ongoing historiographical debate about what actually happened to the Roman Empire in the 4th–5th centuries.