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Annexation of Sudetenland
The three countries agreed to give Germany the Sudetenland, in an attempt to prevent Hitler from invading Czechoslovakia. The Munich Pact, signed on September 30, made German annexation of the Sudetenland official. It started on October 1 and ended on October 10, of 1938 -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, planed military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service to the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. It killed more then 2,000 Americans. -
The Philippines
Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Philippine defense continued until the final surrender of United States-Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula in April 1942. -
Japanese Internment Camps
From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century. -
Island-hopping
A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Axis powers during World War 2. The strategy is taking over an island and establishing a military base there. The base was in turn used as a launching point for the attack and takeover of another island -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military struggle between the two countries. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military struggle between the two countries. It took took place on 4–7 June 1942 -
Guadalcanal
Was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction. The campaign lasted from August 7, 1942 to February 9, 1943 -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany.The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare from August 1942 through February 1943, nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. -
D-Day
The Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Meeting at Yalta
This meet was held February 4–11, 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
After dictating his political testament, Hitler shot himself in his suite on April 30. With Soviet troops occupying Berlin, Germany surrendered unconditionally on all fronts on May 7, 1945, bringing the war in Europe to a close -
Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin resulted in the surrender of the German army and the death of Adolf Hitler. It was a resounding victory for the Soviet Union and the Allies. Around 92,000 German soldiers were killed with another 220,000 wounded. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman. They met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Los Alamos
The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons. -
Los Alamos
The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Big Three, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman.They met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
