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annexation of sudatenland
The northern part of Czechoslovakia was known as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was desired by Germany not only for its territory, but also because a majority of its population were ‘ethnically’ German.
(article)https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/life-in-nazi-occupied-europe/foreign-policy-and-the-road-to-war/occupation-of-the-sudetenland/#:~:text=The%20northern%20part%20of%20Czechoslovakia,population%20were%20'ethnically'%20German.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack by some 350 Japanese aircraft sunk or badly damaged eighteen US naval vessels, including eight battleships, destroyed or damaged 300 US aircraft, and killed 2,403 men.
(article)https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-wwii/a/pearl-harbor#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%20December,aircraft%2C%20and%20killed%202%2C403%20men.
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The Philippines
Japan launched an attack ten hours after their attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945 during WWII. Filipinos staged guerrilla resistance against the Japanese until 1945. The Philippines was liberated from Japanese control by Allied forces in 1944.
(article) https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/c.php?g=105238&p=687104
(video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUKU-D7qixE -
Island hopping
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance -
Japanese internment camps
In the "relocation centers" (also called "internment camps"), four or five families, with their sparse collections of clothing and possessions, shared tar-papered army-style barracks. Most lived in these conditions for nearly three years or more until the end of the war.
(Article) https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation#:~:text=In%20the%20%22relocation%20centers%22%20(,the%20end%20of%20the%20war.
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Battle of midway
fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
( article) https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Midway
(video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9eNr-tRGNU -
Stalingrad
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
(article) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-stalingrad#:~:text=Stalingrad%20was%20one%20of%20the,the%20Soviet%20dictator%2C%20Josef%20Stalin.
(video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnkKo83XXA -
Guadalcanal
series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific.
(article) https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal
(video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_Tr-qUtiY -
D-day
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. It delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
(article) https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/world-war-ii-d-day-invasion-normandy#:~:text=The%20D%2DDay%20operation%20of,the%20beaches%20of%20Normandy%2C%20France.
(video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if6ZXR2d4J0 -
Meeting at Yalta
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater,
(Article)https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf#:~:text=At%20Yalta%2C%20Roosevelt%20and%20Churchill,of%20influence%20in%20Manchuria%20following
(Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGalZTP1sT8 -
Fall of Berlin
Battle of Berlin, one of the final battles of World War II. It took place from April 20 to May 2, 1945, and it ended with the fall of Berlin to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941.
(article) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Berlin
(video)https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aAaVoZF06V0 -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin.
(article)https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-adolf-hitler
(video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6U_5cCoZvM -
Los Alamos
Where the Manhattan project was tested; These scientists worked together to develop the theoretical and experimental tests that created the first atomic weapons
(article)https://www.nps.gov/mapr/los-alamos.htm#:~:text=These%20scientists%20worked%20together%20to,still%20Los%20Alamos%20National%20Laboratory.
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Meeting at Potsdam
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), 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
(article) https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf#:~:text=The%20Big%20Three%E2%80%94Soviet%20leader,end%20of%20World%20War%20II.
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Hiroshima
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
(article)https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima
(video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_A8LPtuX5c