world war II

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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich from September 29 to 30, 1938. The Munich Pact agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor was a U.S military base located on the Pacific Fleet. Unfortunately, on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor had received a surprise attack from Japan, taking out the entire Fleet. Thousands of American lives were lost, and this was the spark that caused the United States to enter World War II . Wikipedia
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  • The Phillippines

    The Phillippines
    Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Initial aerial bombs followed by landings of ground troops both north and south of Manila (Philippines Capital). Fighting continued until Japan's formal surrender on September 2, 1945. The Philippines suffered loss of life and physical destruction
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  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping
    This practice was basically skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance. This strategy was used by the United States in order to isolate Japanese strongholds and get past them without interfering.

  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies for the Japanese government. Out of only fear, no evidence at all, the United States government placed all Japanese related citizens in interment camps, basically like a prison.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    An important World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, where the United States destroyed Japan's first line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots
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  • Guadalcanal campaign

    Guadalcanal campaign
    The Battle of Guadalcanal was a major battle between the United States and Japan in World War II. The battle marked the first time since entering the war that the United States had gone on the offensive and attacked the Japanese
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  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
    This battle stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning point of the of war in favor of the Allies. It is thought to be the bloodiest battle of both World War II and warfare in general, Stalin demanded the city will be defended no matter what.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    This was one of the most important battles in warfare history, it involved both land and water fighting. This operation’s alias was “OVERLORD”. The allied powers decided to take charge into the German invaded Normandy, France through the 5 beaches of Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, and Utah.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi German
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Once Hitler realized that the battle of Berlin was going to be lost against the allies, Hitler refused to face public humiliation as his ally Mussolini had faced. His solution to not face that was suicide, since he had manifested extreme nationalism before.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The soviets ran into Berlin, and captured the city, the final step in defeating Hitler's army and ending World War II in Europe. Two fronts attacked from the east and the south, to capture the city, and a third one overran German forces on the north. Hitler shot himself before they could capture him.
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  • Meeting of Potsdam

    Meeting of Potsdam
    soviet leader Joseph Stalin, prime minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. president Harry Truman, met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed about 80,000 people, then tens of thousands more would die of radiation later on
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    The Manhattan Project was research during World War II that produced the first atomic bomb. Los Alamos, New Mexico was where they tested it.
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