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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was a hotly contested region of Czechoslovakia during the conflicts that led to World War II. The region was annexed by Germany through the Munich Agreement. The Sudetenland encompasses parts of northern Moravia as well as parts of northern and western Bohemia, which are in the region of the Sudeten mountain range and boarder Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise military attack by the Japanese, causing the U.S. to join World War II. -
The Philippines
The Philippines were surprise attacked by Japan without warning just 10 hours after Pearl Harbor. -
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Japananese Internment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
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Battle of Midway
A decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
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Stalingrad
The largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of their city of Stalingrad. -
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Guadalcanal
A military campaign fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Island-hopping
The phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific Ocean. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy between the Allied nations and German forces that were occupying Western Europe. -
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Meeting at the Yalta
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
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Fall of Berlin
Designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union. -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, killed himself and people believed he did it because his bunker was captured by the Russian Army. He had also killed his wife and dog as well. -
Los Alamos
Area in Mexico were the U.S. tested nuclear weapons. -
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Meeting at Potsdam
The last inter-Allied conference of World War II, was held at the suburb of Potsdam, outside ruined Berlin. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima was one of the 2 Japanese cities that the U.S. dropped the nuclear bombs on.
