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Annexation of Sudetenland
This became a major source of contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWB_rAHh_0
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Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu.
Article: https://www.nps.gov/valr/index.htm
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Island Hopping
island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. The key idea is to bypass heavily fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence en route to a final target.
Article:https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944#:~:text=Amphibious%20Invasions%20and%20Island%20Hopping,Higgins%20Industries%20in%20New%20Orleans.
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Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps.
Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Article:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
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Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign. It was fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWgke38ce_U
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Stalingrad
It put Hitler and the Axis powers on the defensive, and boosted Russian confidence as it continued to do battle on the Eastern Front in World War II. In the end, many historians believe the Battle at Stalingrad marked a major turning point in the conflict. Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad
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The Philippines
Japan's conquest of the Philippines is often considered the worst military defeat in US history.About 23,000 American military personnel, and about 100,000 died
Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan
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D-Day
D-Day was born in the immediate aftermath of America's entry into the war, and agreement on a 'Germany first' strategy. From the outset the Americans pushed for a cross-Channel invasion of north-west Europe as the most direct way to engage German forces.Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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Meeting at yalta
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Mousilini. The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea
Article:https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf
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Fall Of Berlin
The depleted German forces put up a stiff defense, initially repelling the attacking Russians, but ultimately succumbing to overwhelming force. It was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
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Death of Hitler
In the beginning of April, Adolf Hitler first started having thoughts of suicide. The bodies of Hitler and Eva were cremated in the chancellery garden by the bunker survivors and reportedly later recovered in part by Russian troops.
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
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Los Alamos
On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom.
Article;https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/
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Meeting at Potsdam
The meeting at Potsdam was held in a small place in Berlin. It was to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
Article:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima was one of the locations in Japan where the atomic bomb was dropped on. The pourpous of this bomb was to end the war.
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Sc5GeDkGc