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Annexation of Sudetenland
Part of Czechoslovakia that was invaded by Germany -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack by Japanese to cripple America's Pacific fleet -
The Philippines
was at a strategic location between Japan and the South Pacific. Invaded by the Japanese empire -
Japanese Internment camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Guadalcanal
It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Island Hopping
The phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific Ocean. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Meeting at Yalta
meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Battle of Berlin
designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II. -
Death of Hitler
Soviet Red Army bearing down on Germany, Hitler left his HQ in East Prussia -
Los Alamos
Laboratory in New Mexico where the Manhattan project was located. -
Potsdam Conference
Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
