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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
The Philippines
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Japanese Internment Camps
During World War II, the United States, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. -
Los Alamos
a top-secret site for designing nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle. On the morning of June 4, 1942, aircraft from Japanese carriers attacked and damaged the US base on Midway. The US Marine Corps force stationed on Midway endured devastating losses, but the facilities only suffered minor damage. -
Guadalcanal
A military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Island-hopping
The U.S. Navy gains a major strategic victory on the island of Guadalcanal, pushing back the Japanese invasion force in the Solomon Islands. This is the first battle in a U.S. “island hopping” or "leapfrogging" campaign that will keep moving U.S. forces closer to Japan itself. -
D-Day
More than 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Known as "D-Day," the name and date loom large in the memory of World War II -
Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta 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. -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, died by suicide via a gunshot to the head -
Fall of Berlin
In a final lie after his death, German radio reported that Hitler had fallen in battle. When the city was taken seventy five years ago on May 2,1945, over 300,000 Berliners and 80,000 Red Army soldiers lay dead amongst the ruins. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in history