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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being.
Video:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html
Article:
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by the Japanese against the U.S. in Hawaii territory in the morning. After the devastating event, it led the United states to join WWll. Video & Article:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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The Philippines
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on December 8, 1941 nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United had full control of the Philippines and their military bases.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
Video:
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Japanese Interment Camps
Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President. Japanese-Americans forced into camps after Pearl Harbor. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-k0uG8pAw -
Battle of Midway
Japan attempts to take Midway but the majority of their planes are the destroyed by the UNS. Then the United States Navy counter-attack and end up destroying all 4 aircraft carriers.
Article & Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Guadalcanal
The major goal was to capture Guadalcanal where the Japanese were building an airfield. After five months, Japan was finally destroyed. Article & Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal -
Stalingrad
The last confrontation of World War II in which Germany and the Allies fought the Soviet Union for the control of Stalingrad.
Stalingrad is know today as Volgograd in Southern Russia. Article & Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
Island Hopping
A military strategy of selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others. This strategy helped the Americans become more faster towards their goal (Japan).
Article:
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/australias-war-19391945/events/japanese-retreat-19431944/island-hopping
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1jloRtXes -
Fall of Berlin
The soviets final blow to end Hitlers power and rule, it was the battle to end World War 2 and for all. Around 200 000 people died on both sides and the war in Europe was over.
Article: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm
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D-Day
The turning point in the war; day of invasion of Normandy over 9,000 soldiers died. Allies landed in Northern France to open a Second Front against Germany. The Normandy Invasion drove the Germans out of France. Article & Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Meeting at Yalta
Also known as Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference. Months after the Fall of Berlin, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill (The Big Three) met in the soviet Union to discuss about the shape of the postwar world. Video & Article:
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Death of Hitler
Hitler the leader and politician of the Nazi Party has killed himself with his wife Eva in his own bunker. He refuses to surrender and that in effect caused him to commit suicide. Video:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/death-of-hitler-video
Article:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos, New Mexico is a laboratory during WWll where the atomic bombs were being tested for the Manhattan project. Also the birthplace of the atomic bombs.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M
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https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm -
Meeting at Postdam
The last meeting of World War II held by Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
Article:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
Video:
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Hiroshima
City in Japan and bombed by of the B-29 bombers.
The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
Video & Article:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
