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Annexation of Sudetenland
Article: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLGRYiF_ZQ
Info: During the interwar period, the majority of Sudetenland was german yet Sudetenland had become part of Czechoslovakia as of WW1. Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany convinced the United Nations to let him annex Sudetenland in order for all germans to be united. At the Munich Conference in 1938, Sudetenland was officially transferred to Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e99lfmmDN0
Info: Pearl Harbor was a United States naval base in the Pacific Ocean. On December 7, 1941 many Japanese fighter planes descended onto the naval base. On this day, nearly 2400 Americans were killed in this tragedy. -
Island Hopping
Article: https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1671.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LUDLuYkdU
Info: Island Hopping was a tactic used by United States against the Japanese. The purpose of island hopping was to "hop" island-island in the Pacific Theatre to push Japanese back to their homeland and prevent their expansion. -
Japanese Interment Camps
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Video: https://densho.org/american-concentration-camps/
Info: Japanese interment camps were established by Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Pearl Harbor attack. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Americans felt uncertain of the loyalty of many Japanese Americans. F.D.R. issued Executive Order 9066 which forced thousands of Japanese Americans to work in internment camps. -
Battle of Midway
Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Midway
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-au50GxIXw
Info: Acknowledgeable naval battle fought with mostly only aircraft. It was a United State's victory against the Japanese and ended the Japanese threat of invasion of Pacific. It was the Pacific Theatre's turning point of the war. -
Guadalcanal
Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzCTvSQ4JY
Info: Guadalcanal was a series of land and sea clashes between Allies and Japanese. These clashes took place in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. This was one of the Allie's first victories against the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Article: https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/battle-of-stalingrad-the-turning-point-of-world-war-ii-in-europe
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCpaNjfs2LI
Info: The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal battle between Germans and the Soviet Union. In 1942 Adolf Hitler's reign was expanding. He desired to expand his power to Stalingrad, a major city in the Soviet Union named after Joseph Stalin. For this threatening reason, Soviets saw it an even bigger reason to protect it. -
D-Day
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/d-day
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIN0Ug8wg8
Info: On June 6th, 1944 Allied forces invaded Normandy Beaches in France. This project was called Operation Overlord. The goal of this operation was to push german forces back. -
Battle of Philippines
Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Philippine-Sea
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-v_ZT88yBU
Info: Battle of the Philippines was a battle between Japanese combines fleet and United State's 5th fleet. It was known as "greatest carrier battle of the war". The goal was to push back Japan from expanding to the Philippines. United States were victorious at the end of this battle. -
Yalta Conference
Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOA5QrWbNzo
Info: Event where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met. Their reason for meeting was to plan their final execution of the defeat of Nazi Germans. They decided to divide the german area into military zones to successfully execute their plan. -
Fall of Berlin
Article: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCiHGcJzFg
Info: In April, 1945 Stalin unleashed 20 armies into Germany in hopes of annihilating the German forces and weakening their force by capturing their capital, Berlin. Germans put a tough fight against the Soviets but eventually succumbed to Soviet's overwhelming force. -
Death of Hitler
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p92hZ1ye8A
Info: On April 30th 1945, Adolf Hitler killed himself in his underground bunker in Berlin. Adolf Hitler consumed a cyanide capsule and shot himself with a pistol in response to his "1000 year" collapsing above him. -
Potsdam Conference
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTmrusxCag
Info: Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to establish a Council of Foreign Ministers. They discussed punishments for german criminals, land boundaries, and reparations. They also demanded Germany's unconditional surrender. -
Los Alamos
Article: https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgdBI31-lo
Info: Los Alamos, New Mexico was the location where the very first atomic bomb was tested. The atomic bomb testing in Los Alamos was to ensure that this weapon worked but also to exactly what affects it had. It was tested under Leslie Grove's Manhattan Project. -
Hiroshima
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07xiaBl2vk
Info: Hiroshima was the city where the first ever combat atomic bomb was dropped. United States were responsible for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Their motive for dropping the bomb was to avoid another battle with Japan. By making this decision they saved nearly 1 million American lives but killed thousands of Japanese.
