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Annexation of Sudetenland
Germans take control of Czechoslovakia -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bomb a U.S. naval base in Hawaii -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. decodes Japanese messages and stages a surprise attack near Midway Island -
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Leapfrogging
An Allied strategy used against the the Japanese Empire that involved travelling from island to island slowly gaining more and more territory (also known as island hopping) -
Battle of Stalingrad
German soldiers attempt and fail to take the Russian city of Stalingrad -
Guadalcanal Campaign
U.S. troops take control of Guadalcanal from the Japanese Empire -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy -
Yalta Conference
A meeting of the big three Allied nations before the end of the war to decide what to do with Europe after the war -
Death of Hitler
Hitler loses hope of winning the war and decides to take his own life -
Fall of Berlin
Successful Soviet takeover of Berlin -
Los Alamos Bomb test
U.S. test of an Atomic Bomb -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting of the big three Allied nations after Germany's surrender to decide what to do with Europe after the war -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The first of two atomic U.S. bombings of Japan -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The second of two atomic U.S. bombings of Japan the convinced Japan to surrender -
Philippines campaign
An American campaign to expel the Imperial Japanese forces from the Philippines -
Internment of Japanese Americans
Internment of Japanese Americans was the imprisonment of about 120,000 people of Japanese decent in the United States
