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Annexation of the Sudetenland
On September 29 and 30, 1938, the leaders of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy met in Munich. They consented to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in what became known as the Munich Agreement in exchange for Hitler's promise of peace.
https://study.com/learn/lesson/sudetenland-annexation-ww2-german-invasion-czechoslovakia.html
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, just before 8:00 a.m., the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service launched a surprise military attack against the United States against the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
https://www.pbs.org/video/war-pearl-harbor-attack/
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The Philippines
The entire country of the Philippines was destroyed, and Ma-nila, formerly known as the Pearl of the Orient, became the second-most destroyed city in all of World War II behind Warsaw, Poland. There were about one million civilian deaths.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events/educational-travel/world-war-ii-philippines/world-war-ii-philippines-spring-2024
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-manila-bay -
Japanese Internment Camps
By Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Japanese internment camps during World War Two. The U.S. government had a policy of imprisoning people of Japanese origin, including citizens, in segregated camps from 1942 until 1945.
https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/japanese-american-internment
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Battle of Midway
Six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, on June 4–7, 1942, a significant naval action in the Pacific Theater of World War II took place near Midway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-au50GxIXw
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Island-hopping
Island hopping came to be characterized as this tactic of skipping over well fortified islands in order to conquer weakly protected places that could support the following push. Defenders of remote Japanese strongholds were let to deteriorate from famine and disease.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/educational-travel/victory-pacific/spring-2023
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Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a World War II military operation that took place on and around the island of Guadalcanal between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/educational-travel/battle-guadalcanal/august-1-2023
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Los Alamos
The first nuclear weapons were created as a result of the Manhattan Project's research and development efforts during World War II. With the help of the United Kingdom and Canada, it was spearheaded by the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M
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Battle of Stalingrad
During the Battle of Stalingrad, a significant conflict on the Eastern Front of World War Two, Nazi Germany and its allies battled the Soviet Union in vain for control of the southern Russian city of Stalingrad.
https://www.normandy1944.info/home/battles/battle-of-stalingrad
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D-Day
The Allied invasion of Normandy as part of Operation Overlord in World War II was known as the Normandy landings, which took place on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, and included airborne operations as well. It was the biggest seaborne invasion in history and was known under the codename Operation Neptune and as D-Day.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-when-d-day
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Yalta Conference
The leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union met in Yalta, commonly referred to as the Crimea Conference, from February 4–11, 1945, to discuss the postwar reconstruction of Germany and Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NPeiB2Sl8
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Fall of Berlin
One of the final significant offensives of the European theater of World War II was the Battle of Berlin, also known as the Fall of Berlin and recognized by the Soviet Union as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation.
https://time.com/5720386/berlin-wall-fall/
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, while sequestered in a bunker beneath his Berlin headquarters. He does so by ingesting a cyanide capsule and shoots himself in the head. Soon after, Hitler's plans for a "1,000-year" Reich came to an end when Germany unconditionally submitted to the Allied armies.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3U3v8VMzk -
Potsdam Conference
In order to negotiate the terms of the end of World War II, the Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (who was succeeded on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and American President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
https://www.britannica.com/video/180248/Overview-Potsdam-Conference
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Bombing of Hiroshima
During World War II (1939–45), the first deployed atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by an American B-29 bomber. An estimated 80,000 individuals were killed instantly by the explosion, while tens of thousands more perished from radioactive exposure.
https://www.icanw.org/hiroshima_and_nagasaki_bombings
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki