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The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich on September 1938 In what became known as the Munich Pact, they agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Konrad-Henlein https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/film/sudetenland-ceded-to-germany -
Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack on a US naval base in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The attack was by Japan and it was the attack that put the USA in WW2. It was an attack that killed many Americans when no one was expecting it to happen. https://www.pbs.org/video/war-pearl-harbor-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
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 https://sites.wp.odu.edu/primary-sources/sources-and-more/world-war-ii-in-the-pacific/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7k5dC8_W8 -
the Japanese Internment Camps was where the Americans put Japs into camps. and had them live away from everybody else in the camp. The camps were surrounded by barbed-wire fences patrolled by armed guards who had instructions to shoot anyone who tried to leave. https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment/Life-in-the-camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M -
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. the battle was the major turning point of the war in the Pacific. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-midway-begins#:~:text=During%20the%20four%2Dday%20sea,the%20previously%20invincible%20Japanese%20navy. https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Resources/Battle-of-Midway/ -
The Allied success in Guadalcanal ended Japanese expansion efforts in the Pacific and placed the Allies in a position of supremacy. The victory at Guadalcanal could be seen as the first in a string of successes that eventually led to the surrender of Imperial Japan. the battle ended on 02/09/43. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/educational-travel/battle-guadalcanal/august-1-2023 https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/solomon-islands-campaign-guadalcanal -
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. it was also where they tested the fist atomic bomb. https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project https://www.britannica.com/video/223010/did-you-know-Manhattan-Project -
Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river.
The battle eventually ended on February 2 1943. https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad https://www.britannica.com/video/180233/Overview-Battle-of-Stalingrad -
D-Day was an attack on the axis powers from the beaches of Normandy. the attack was one of the turning points for the war in Europe. The attack was where ships attacked from 5 different beaches to surprise the axis powers. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandy https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/d-day-explained -
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference https://www.c-span.org/video/?468623-1/united-newsreel-yalta-conference -
The Fall of Berlin was when the United States took over Germany and made them surrender. one of the last major offensive attacks in Europe in World War II. It also ended the war in Europe on May, 2 1945. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52572544 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fQPzZ1-hg -
Hitler died by killing himself when the war was coming to an end. Germany was about to lose the war so Hitler killed himself so that he could not be captured. He was in his underground bunker when he had killed himself. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/adolf-hilter-death-suicide-anniversary-nazi-germany-world-war-2-eva-braun-history-a9488061.html -
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. this was the making of the the end of the war in Europe. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference https://www.britannica.com/video/180248/Overview-Potsdam-Conference -
Hiroshima was the place where united states dropped there first atomic bomb. they dropped the atomic bomb on japan because they were estimated to lose about 1 million troops if they invaded the land. They dropped the bomb to make japan surrender and end the whole war https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8WMgM0GEA -
The Philippines was the united states land during ww2 ,but Japan took over the land in 1942 but united states eventually took the land back over near the end of the war. there were united states troops in The Philippines but had to leave because the land was taken over. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events/educational-travel/world-war-ii-philippines/world-war-ii-philippines-spring-2024