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Los Alamos
This is the town that is recognized for the creation and production of the atomic bombs of the Manhattan project.
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Annexation of Sudetenland
Germany invaded the Czech part of Czechoslovakia led by Adolf Hitler. The purpose of this invasion was due to the suffering of the ethnic Germans living in the region. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a U.S. naval base that was devastated by a surprise attack by Japanese forces. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes rained hell on pearl harbor destroying or severely damaging naval vessels and airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans were killed or injured in the assault. -
Island-Hopping
This was a strategy used by United States which is where forces concentrate their resources, setting up military supplies, on strategically important islands.
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Japanese Internment Camps
These were camps established during WW2 by Franklin Roosevelt that people from the Japanese decent were to be interned in isolated camps.
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Battle of Midway
This was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The US destroyed most of japans best naval pilots and first line carrier strength.
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Stalingrad
This was the largest confrontation of World War 2 in which Germany and its allies fought against the Soviet Union for the possession of the city of Stalingrad
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Guadalcanal
This was the first major offensive military campaign in which Allied forces fought to neutralize a Japanese base at Rabaul on Britain.
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D-Day
The day in World War 2 on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion.
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The Philippines
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Meeting at Yalta
This was a meeting in WW2 held by the heads of government; United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Fall of Berlin
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He committed suicide by a gunshot to the head along with his wife who took cyanide. When there body's were discovered its said that their body's were doused in petrol and lit on fire. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/death-of-hitler-video -
Meeting at Potsdam
This meeting was to discuss how Europe would proceed after WW2 and who would be held responsible for the clean up of Europe after the war.
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Hiroshima
Modern city's in Japan were destroyed by two atomic bomb during WW2 resulting in the deaths of 120,000-226,000 people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=3wxWNAM8Cso
