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Annexation of Sudetenland
Hitler demands an area that was given to him as appeasement.This decision eventually leads to him taking the rest of Czech.
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese Dropped a bomb on the naval “Pearl Harbor.”This decision caused the death of over a thousand people.
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Philippines
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Japanese Internment Camps
After the Pearl Harbor incident, the American government depicted the Japanese with a negative connotation through propaganda .President Wilson Established the Executive other 9066. This meant that Japanese Americans had to report to interment camps.
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Battle of Midway
A battle between the US and the Japanese. The Allied Powers cam our victorious after a short period of time.
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Guadalcanal
Also known as The Battle of Guadalcanal. This was the first American defeat on Japanese land. This battle eventually gives the US control of supply lines in Australia.
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Stalingrad
Also known as the battle of Stalingrad. This is the battle where the German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the industrial port city on the Volga River in the Soviet Union.
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Island hopping
World War 2 strategy of conquering certain pacific islands that were important to the allied powers.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/v/world-war-ii-in-the-pacific-in-1942 -
D-Day
The Allied Powers attempt to win back France from Nazi Germany by landing troops on the French beaches.
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Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of the Big Three. They Decided what would happen to Germany and Europe after WW2.
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Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was a Allier victory in Berlin Germany.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/v/1945-end-of-world-war-ii -
Death of Hitler
After the Battle of Berlin, Germany had reached its end in the war and Hitler supposedly committed suicide shortly after in a bunker.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/v/1945-end-of-world-war-ii -
Los Alamos
A young scientist named Phillip Morrison worked on the Manhattan Project with othe scientists in Los Alamos . By 1945 they were ready for the worlds first atomic bomb. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpgmEvlRpM -
Meeting at Potsdam
The last meeting between the Allied leaders The meeting focused on the surrender of the Japanese. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9zrJWV-8ks -
Hiroshima
A city in Japan that was destroyed by an atomic . The bomb hastened the end of World War 2 . bombhttps://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000005317552/hiroshima-atomic-nuclear-bomb.html
