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Sudetenland
Hitler takes over previously lost territory in Austria and Yugoslavia
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLGRYiF_ZQ
Image: https://www.historyonthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sudetenland.jpg
Article: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese surprise attack on pearl harbor
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr6Ec7XZLLA
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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Japanese internment camps
Relocation of all Japanese us citizens to assure spies were not giving info
Image: https://www.sapiens.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Copy-of-03-mcalbump21b-Joseph-McClelland.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-k0uG8pAw
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation -
Battle of Stalingrad
Fearsome battle between the axis powers and the soviet union that lasted for a year before Germany capitulated.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jolmJ_DLLPE
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
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Island Hopping
Tactic that the us used when dealing with japans empire
Image:http://america-at-war-wwii.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/9/1/14910486/5128250_orig.jpg?0
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBgxW3H_tsI
Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/exhibits/road-tokyo/island-hopping -
Guadalcanal
First allied victory in the pacific theater
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Marines_rest_in_the_field_on_Guadalcanal.jpg/300px-Marines_rest_in_the_field_on_Guadalcanal.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZBNqg5Weg
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal -
Battle of Midway
Battle on the midway island and huge blunder for the Japanese navy who loose 4 carriers
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kipF5zoCGAk
Image: https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x300/80/71380-004-B4724C34.jpg
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
Los Alamos
Site used mainly during the development of the atomic bomb
Image: https://www.atomicheritage.org/sites/default/files/TA-16.png
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLzBWQY7m0
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/los-alamos-national-laboratory -
Philippines campaign
US led invasion and liberation of the Philippines from japan
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg/300px-Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STlLcoPAsjc
Article: https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=27 -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Nazi occupied France
Image: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/bC-NbLFLrBlQ4P4FjNfFC9Gr9fw=/960x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2WEUKA6QOYZZLCYAMKJ643RCWM.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGz9j-HbieU
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Hiroshima
US dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima
Image: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/shutterstock_shutterstock_251930719-554x380.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso
Article: https://www.history.com/news/hiroshima-nagasaki-bombing-wwii-cold-war -
Death of Hitler
Hitler rather than surrendering he took his own life
Image: https://www.historyonthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PROD-Adolf-Hitler-whrend-einer-Rede.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu7n0_gVgTc
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker -
Yalta Conference
meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill to demand Germany's surrender
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Yalta_Conference_%28Churchill%2C_Roosevelt%2C_Stalin%29_%28B%26W%29.jpg/1200px-Yalta_Conference_%28Churchill%2C_Roosevelt%2C_Stalin%29_%28B%26W%29.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZdgjY8I7E
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference -
Fall of berlin
Fall of Nazi Germany and end of the war in Europe
Image: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cQCuNkWts8k/hqdefault.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQCuNkWts8k
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Potsdam meeting
Meeting between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin to decide the way Germany would be rebuilt.
Image: https://cdn.britannica.com/s:300x300/53/78753-004-905E0AF3.jpg
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu17c_3OTHw
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/potsdam-conference-concludes
