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Deathg Camps
Death Camps were established all over Germany in order to handle the masses of people arrested as alleged subversives. -
Nuremberg Laws
The laws discriminated German Jews and stripped them of their rights. -
Munich Conference
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of ethnic demands made by Adolf Hitler. -
Kristallnacht
At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. -
St. Louis Affair
The ship was one of the last ocean liners that left Europe before the war. The passengers were denied entrance into Cuba, even though they had valid passports. -
German Invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
German Invasion of France
The battle consisted of two main operations. First, German armored units pushed through the Ardennes to cut off and surround the Allied units. When British and adjacent French forces were pushed back to the sea, the British government evacuated the BEF and French divisions at Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. -
Dunkirk
On the first day, only 7,011 men were evacuated, but, by the ninth day, a total of 338,226 soldiers had been rescued -
Pearl Harbor
Brought the United States into World War II -
Wake Island
The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Wannsee Conference
The purpose of the conference was for Reinhard Heydrich to announce the Final Solution policies for Jews with leaders. -
Bataan Death March
Approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100-650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O'Donnell -
Coral Sea
The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other -
Midway
Was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. -
Guadalcanal
Also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces. -
Stalingrad
Bled the German army dry in Russia and sent them in full retreat -
Invasion of North Africa
U.S, and U.K. attacked French North Africa -
Sicily Invasion
After 38 days of fighting the U.S. and Great Britain successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland -
Invasion of Italy
It was an allied battle that followed the success of Sicily -
Tehran Conference
It was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders. -
Tarawa
It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. -
Fall of Rome
Capture of Rome was overshadowed by the allied landings in Normandy two days later -
D-Day
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of France's Normandy -
Philippines
The battle was nicknamed the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" by American aviators for the very uneven loss ratio inflicted upon Japanese aircraft by American pilots and anti-aircraft gunners. -
Battle of the Bulge
Counteroffensive by Germany army that was meant to cut through Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor -
Yalta Conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Iwo Jima
The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 mi) of underground tunnels -
Fire bombing of Tokyo
U.S, warplanes dropped 2,000 tons of incediary bombs on Tokyo over the course of 48 hours -
Okinawa
Codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
Death of FDR
At the time he collapsed, Roosevelt had been sitting for a portrait painting by the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff, known as the famous Unfinished Portrait of FDR. -
VE Day
Offically announced the end of WW2 in Europe -
Trinity Test
This event jump started the nuclear age -
Potsdam Conference
Gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany -
Hiroshima
Bomb that flattened the city of Hiroshima, Japan and killed tens of thousands of civilians -
Enola Gay
Became WW2's most famous airplane when it dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima -
Nagasaki
It was the last major act of WW2 and within days the Japanese had surrendered -
VJ Day
The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands) – as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred, officially ending World War II.