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Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 American and Filipino prisoner of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan, and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, and Tarlac where prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Dictators Gaining Power
Hitler- Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and that is where he started taking over.
Invasion of Poland- Hitler invaded Poland and this caused the beginning of Worl War II.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide that took place in World War II where Germany systematically murdered six million European Jews. Around two-thirds of the Jewish population died between 1933 and 1945. -
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Hitler's Control
Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. He lost his power when Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in March of 1933. -
Japanese Aggression
The invasion began what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War, which after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
The Neutrality Act of 1939 lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of "cash-and-carry". The ban on loans remained in effect and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports. -
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World War II
World War II started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and Frane declared war on Germany. The war ended in Europe on May 7, 1945 with Germany's surrender. The war in the Pacific ended in Japan on September 2, 1945 when Japan surrendered. -
Fall of France
The Battle of France was also known as The Fall of France. The Fall of France was the German invasion of France and The Low Countries during World War II that started on May 10 and ended on June 25, 1940 -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, hat lasted from July 10, 1940, to October 31, 1940. The Royall Air Force defended the United Kingdom against Germany's brutual attacks. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the southern coast of Oahu, Hawaii, just west of Honolulu. It became the site of a naval base after the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898. On Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the base, and the United States entered World War II the following day. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of conflict with the United States. The final straw was the U.S. taking oil away from Japan and no longer providing them with the resource. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of MIdway Island began on June 4, 1942, and lasted until June 7, 1942. The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which started on August 23, 1942, through February 4, 1923. The Battle of Stalingrad was where Germany and their allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces invaded Northern France. The Allied forces had the plan of performing beach landings in Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was held on February 4, 1945, through February 11, 1945. The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin gathered to discuss Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day or simply V-E Day is generally known as the day Germany surrendered. May 8, 1945, marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States developed an atomic bomb that would kill thousands of innocent people when they released it on Hiroshima, Japan. The United States created the bomb to get back at Japan for attacking Pearl Harbor and President Truman thought that by doing this it would end the war a whole lot quicker.
