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Annexation of Sudetenland
Germany took over Sudetenland to expand its territory and gain control of military defense areas.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed the US Navy base as an attempt to keep the US out of Japans invasions in Southeast Asia.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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The Philippines
Japan attacked the Philippines on December 8th 1941 and the Allies took it back in 1944.
http://countrystudies.us/philippines/21.htm
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Island-hopping
This is the strategy used by the Allies in WW2 against Japan. The goal was to go from island to island until they reach the final target.
article https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944
vidoe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBgxW3H_tsI -
Japanese Internment Camps
This forced mostly Japanese people on the Western side of the US into concentration camps because of the fear that some of them were spy's
article https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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Battle of Midway
This was a major battle that took place in the Pacific Theater. This was a major turning point after the Allies launched a sunrises attack on a major Japanese fleet.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
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Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad took place in between a big industrial city in Russia. The battle was between Russia and Germany and was a major turning point in the war for the Allied Forces.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Stalingrad%20was,powers%20during%20World%20War%20II.&text=But%20the%20Battle%20of%20Stalingrad,favor%20of%20the%20Allied%20forces.
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Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign was the first major land offensive by Allied forces in the Pacific. The Allied forces were trying to destroy the Japanese air strip.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal
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D-Day
An Allied land invasion on the beaches of France.This was an attempt to push Germany out of France. It was successful and is known as the largest seaborne invasion in history.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion
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Meeting at Yalta
This meeting consist of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. It was to discus the reestablishment of the European country's.
article https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onjIjDD_1M -
Death of Hitler
Hitler took his own life on April 30th 1945 with along with his wife.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
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Fall of Berlin
Soviet forces had surrounded and taken over Berlin leading to VE day. This was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm
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Los Alamos
During ww2, this was the nuclear bomb testing site.
article https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLb1O_W5Oyw -
Meeting at Potsdam
This meeting consisted of the big three ( Truman, Churchill, and Stalin) and was to discus how to punish Germany for the war.
article https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9zrJWV-8ks -
Hiroshima
The Us doped the a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima to try to get Japan to surrender. They did this because it would save around 1 million solders.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso