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German Annexation with Austria
German troops marched into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. Hitler annexed Austria then demanded the liberation of German people in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. -
Attack on pearl harbor
The Japanese, who were already waging war against the Chinese, attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. -
Guadalcanal
First major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
The U.S marines launched a surprise attack and took control of the air base under construction. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The largest confrontation of World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Philippines WW2
Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Island Hopping
military Strategy employed by the allies in the Pacific war against Japan and the axis powers during WW2 -
Japanese Internment camps
After the attack on pearl harbor, the Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps because the U.S believed that some of them could be spies. -
D-day
The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. The Germans who had been fed false information about a landing near Calais rushed troops to the area but were unable to prevent the allies from forming a solid bridgehead. -
Yalta Conference
Second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Fall of Berlin
East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Death of Hitler
During the Battle of Berlin, which was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II. Hitler and many of his followers committed suicide. -
Los Alamos
the first atomic bomb was tested there.
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meeting at potsdam
The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War II came to an end. The meeting at Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations. -
Hiroshima
First place the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan
The bomb was exploded 2000 feet above Hiroshima
