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Nuremburg Laws
They were the antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. -
Kristallnacht
The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues. -
Munich Conference
Conference was to held to eventually come up with what is known as the Munich Agreement. -
German Invasion of Poland
Poland was considered a perfect living space for breeding the superior Aryan race. -
St. Louis Affair
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Death Camps
Camps built by Nazi Germany during World War II to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions. -
German Invasion of France
Hitler planned to use Blitzkrieg to claim France. -
Dunkirk
The British Expeditionary Force held off the German advance in order to allow Allied Forces to evacuate to England. -
Pearl Harbor
Brought the United States into World War 2. -
Philippines
Invaded by Japan shortly after Japan's declaration of war upon the United States of America. -
Wake Island
It began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its Allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
Coral Sea
Major naval battle between the Japanese and the Allies. -
Midway
The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II -
Guadalcanal
The Allies intended to use Guadalcanal as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture the major Japanese base -
Bataan Death March
It , was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. -
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
This was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. -
Wannsee Conference
Was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. -
Tehran Conference
A meeting between Allied leaders to discuss strategy. -
Fall of Rome
Bombed primarily by the Allies. -
Invasion of Italy
The Allies landed on the mainland of Italy following the successful invasion of Sicily during the Italian Campaign. -
Sicily Invasion
Codenamed Operation Husky, the Sicily Invasion was a major World War II campaign, -
Tarawa
A battle in the Gilbert Islands, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
D-Day
When 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Battle of the Bulge
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. -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Death of FDR
Died from a cerebral hemorrhage. -
Potsdam Conference
Attempt to confront the delicate balance of power. -
Okinawa
It was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
Nagasaki
Hit by a nuclear weapon called a Fat Man. -
Hiroshima
American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima. -
Iwo Jima
A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Enola Gay
It became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. -
VJ Day
The day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. -
Trinity Test
The code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. -
VE Day
The end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, ending the war in Europe.