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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    In September of 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler to discuss giving the Sudetenland to Germany. On September 30, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany signed the Munich Pact that officially sanctioned German annexation of the Sudetenland.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941. any significant or crippling defeat, betrayal, loss, etc., that comes.
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  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the United States territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific Theater of World War II. The operation to capture the islands, which was defended by the U.S. and Philippine Armies, was intended to prevent interference with Japan's expansion in Southeast Asia.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal and decisive battle that took place in the city of Stalingrad, Russia. The battle lasted from August 1942 until February 1943.
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  • Japanese Internmet camps

    Japanese Internmet camps
    During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Japanese Combined Fleet under the command of Isoroku Yamamoto suffered a decisive defeat by the U.S. Pacific Fleet near Midway Atoll.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Battle of Guadalcanal, (August 1942–February 1943), 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.
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    On April 1, 1943, in a mundane task of paperwork approval that was kept secret, the United States established a research laboratory in the mountains of New Mexico. In the paperwork it was referred to as Project Y, and administered by the University of California.
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  • Island-Hopping

    Island-Hopping
    Leapfrogging was an amphibious military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    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, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan’s surrender.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. 41,600 artillery pieces.
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    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.
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The bomb detonated with an energy of around 15 kilotons of TNT and was the first nuclear weapon deployed in wartime. The crew of the Boeing B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, which made the flight over Hiroshima to drop the first atomic bomb.
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