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Annexation of Austria '
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Munich Conference
during this the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it, and ended on 09/29/1938just a day later -
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German Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
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Battle of France
a remarkable German assault on north-west Europe, known as the Battle of France, resulted in the capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries which are Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. -
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Battle of Britain
was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii -
Bataan Death March
Lasted a few days, The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
The Battle of Midway
The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Successful Soviet Union defense of the city of Stalingrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. , during World War II.It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
Operation Torch
Lasted a couple days,Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. While the French colonies formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies. -
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The Italian Campaign
The Allies agreed to help and decided to use Italy as an platform to attack enemy territory in Europe and help divert German resources from the Eastern Front. This effort became known as the Italian Campaign. -
D-Day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.The day on which an important operation is to begin or a change to take effect. -
The Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a British-American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. -
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The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Auschwitz/ Dachau Death Camps
The United States military entered Dachau, where they found thousands of mostly emaciated prisoners. The U.S. soldiers also discovered several dozen train cars loaded with rotting corpses. -
Los Alamos New Mexico - Manhattan Project
A few years after the start of World War II, for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.