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Annexation of Sudetenland
1 October and 10 October 1938.
The Sudetenland was annex by German between October 1 and October the 10. Germany wanted to annex the Sudetenland because Hitler wanted to reunite the German people since many germans were split after the first world war. Hitler wanted to unite all the Germans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egP-AwSk0Ec -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a Navel base built in 1911 and was attacked from the air form Japanese airplanes on December 7, 1941. This attack is was prompted president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to asked congress for a formal decoration of war on the Japanese. One day later the U.S Congress would hear Roosevelt's Infamy speech and Congress would approve the Declaration of war. https://www.doi.gov/video/remembering-pearl-harbor -
The Philippines campaign
8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942
During World War Two the Philippines were very important to the Americans as it was an important staging ground for the American forces. American forces needed the Philippines to stage future attacks against the Japanese their tactic was dubbed Island Hopping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssSDELFWdYc -
Japanese internment camps
1942 to 1945
Feb 19, 1942 – Mar 20 With the war with Japan the American government was concern that there would be Japanese spies that would feed intel back to the Japanese Government. So the American government decide to move all of the American Japanese father into the country in to these make shift camps. They were forced to stay there and live out there lives until the war ended. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation -
Stalingrad
Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest and longest battles of World War Two. Once the battle begins Russia is able to hold off the Nazi invaders.1942 With little supplies left the USSR had suffered a loss. But Frontally for the Russians winter begins to settle in and the germans were not use to fighting such weather, the Russians begin to slowly take back Stalingrad until they finally recaptured it in March.
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Battle of Midway
4–7 June 1942 The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Japanese and American war. This was a decisive war to determine who would advance in the war.
The Japanese had two times the amount of the military personal but the America can still fight and win even with less military craft.
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Guadalcanal
7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 Guadalcanal or known as Operation Watchtower it was a military campaign for the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Theater. Japanese were holding the Island against the Allied Powers, until February 7 of 1943 when the Army's XIV Corp came in and forced the Japanese out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzCTvSQ4JY -
Island Hopping
From August of 1942-1944
Island hopping was a tactic used by both the American and Japanese Government to capture Island in the Pacific and to set up advance forward outpost for their troop. Island Hopping was also known as Leapfrogging. Why did the U.s defend the Pacific? One very good reason was the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, another was the Japanese had taken control of the Philippines, the United States had interest in the Philippines.
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D-Day
The Battle of Normandy or more commonly known as D-Day. This day was the single reason why the Allied Powers own the war. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces went and landed at the five beaches along the 50 miles of beach at Frances Normandy region. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Meeting at Yalta
February 4–11, 1945
The Big Three, Franklin D. Roosevelt president of the United States, Winston Churchill British Prime Minister, and Joseph Stalin Soviet Premier. These were the Big Three Allied powers, they talked about the post-war and what to do with Germany and the rest of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVLawWtYdg0 -
Fall of Berlin
Apr 16, 1945 – May 2, 1945
Soviet forces begin to attack the city from three different places the East, the South and the North. On April 20 1945 both the North and the East troops begin shelling Berlin while the South Advancement broke through the Germans defenses. April 20 also happened to be Hitler's birthday. On April 30 Hitler committed suicide with Russian forces still advancing on Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCiHGcJzFg -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler the once prospers Chancellor of the German Reich committed suicide on April 30 1945. Hitler consume a cyanide capsule and shoots himself to make sure there is no way to save him. HIs wife also took a cyanide capsule. But before Hitler took the capsules Hitler ordered his Scienest to use one on his dog Blondi to make sure the capsules were leathful enough. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/death-of-hitler-video -
Los Alamos
July 16, 1945 Los Alamos was a top secret United States Department of Energy designed to make nuclear weapons for the Manhattan Project. There were other sites known as Oak ridge National Laboratory and Hanford site those were the two other main project sites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M -
Meeting at Potsdam
The meeting at Potsdam was the Big three coming together. The Big Three, American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The Big Three came together to talk about the aftermath of the war in Europe and how to punish the war criminals and they also talked about the Pacific with the Japanese. The Big Three wanted an unconditional surrender from Japan. July 17 to August 2, 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJzTL_lGbs -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
As the war came to an end The Allied Powers called for an unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese forces but the Japanese ignored it and the war continued on. The U.S would have two plans either attack Japan and loose thousands of soldiers or Drop the Atomic bomb. President Truman made the call to drop the First Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This did not end the war and a 2nd was dropped on Nagasaki ending the war.
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