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Los Alamos
Los Alamos was used for the Manhattan Project, it was used as a laboratory for the creation of the first nuclear weapons.
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Annexation of Sudetenland
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
A surprise bombing attack from the Japanese during WW2, over 2,000 people were killed and the USS Arizona was destroyed.
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Battle of Stalingrad
Largest confrontation in WW2, Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
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Japanese Internment Camps
Camps created for the Japanese during WW2 after Pearl Harbor was bombed, any person of Japanese ancestry was sent here, over 120,000 people were in them.
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Island-Hopping
A military strategy used during WW2, it was used against the axis powers, it was also known as Leapfrogging and it is when the allies would put specific resources, military personnel or supplies, on important islands to prepare for attack.
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Island-Hopping
A military strategy used during WW2, it was used against the axis powers, it was also known as Leapfrogging and it is when the allies would put specific resources, military personnel or supplies, on important islands to prepare for attack.
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Battle of Midway
Navel battle in the pacific theater, took place six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Battle of Midway
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Battle of Guadalcanal
Military campaign, and first major offensive and first win for the Pacific theater. The Japanese lost a total of 24,000 men while the US only lost around 1,600 and 4,200 were wounded.
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Stalingrad picture
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D-Day
Allies invade Normandy in operation Overloard. The end result was a victory for the Allies.
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Meeting at Yalta
The heads of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union meet after the war to discuss the reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Meeting at Yalta
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Fall of Berlin
One of the last major offensives of the European theater, during this time, the people of Berlin gathered in a mass protest for the wall that was built.
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Death of Hitler
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Fall of Berlin
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Meeting at Potsdam
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman all got together and met in Potsdam to talk about the terms of WW2.
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Meeting at Potsdam
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Los Alamos Picture
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The Philippines Independence
The treaty of Manila is signed and The Philippines gains full independence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a17C8N7c9Gw
