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The annexation of Sudetenland
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Hitler wanted to keep all the German people together so the leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans. Czechoslovakia had to accept or they would have to face the Nazi party alone. -
Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that had a surprise attack by Japanese forces. They destroyed and damaged nearly 20 American battleships and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the attack, FDR asked congress to declare war on Japan. -
The Philippines
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Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines. Initial aerial bombardment was followed by landings of ground troops. The aircraft there were destroyed; the naval forces were ordered to leave; and because of the circumstances in the Pacific region, reinforcement and resupply of ground forces were impossible. Defending forces withdrew. Manila was occupied by the Japanese on January 2, 1942. -
Stalingrad
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russia and the Axis powers. The battle was one of the largest, longest and bloodiest battles. More than two million troops fought in close quarters and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. The Battle of Stalingrad turned World War II in favor of the Allied forces. -
Japanese Interment Camps
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(http://www.timetoast.com) Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. It was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century. -
Battle of Midway
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Midway was a battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that lasted six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island crushed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and turned the war around in the Pacific. -
Guadalcanal
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Japanese troops were stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack and took control of an airbase under construction. Reinforcements were funneled to the island as a series of land and sea clashes unfolded, and both sides endured heavy losses to their warship contingents. The Japanese suffered a lot of deaths forcing their withdrawal from Guadalcanal by February 1943. -
D-Day
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On June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch in Normandy. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history. In August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. -
Meeting at Yalta
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the U.S., British and Soviet Union. They met in February 1945 in the city of Yalta. The Allied leaders discussed the post-war fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe, the terms of Soviet entry into the ongoing war in the Pacific against Japan and the formation and operation of the new United Nations. -
Island-Hopping
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(http://www.timetoast.com) After the Battle of Midway, the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control. The idea was to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers -
Death of Hitler
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At midnight, Hitler married Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker. After making his political testament, Hitler shot himself in his bedroom on April 30; Braun took poison. Their bodies were burned according to Hitler’s instructions. -
Los Alamos
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Site of the Manhattan Project where they designed and built an atomic bomb. It took just 27 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo Bombing Range. Under the project scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. -
Meeting at Potsdam
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The Potsdam Conference was the last of the WW2 meetings held by the allies. The talks made a Council of Foreign Ministers and an Allied Control Council for the administration of Germany. Made agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. They also issued a declaration demanding “unconditional surrender” from Japan -
Hiroshima
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people, many more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Fall of Berlin
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Nazis began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany and ruining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, the berlin wall was destroyed and now they could cross freely.
