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Annexation of Sudetenland
Desc: The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Article: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html
Video: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html -
Pearl Harbor
Desc: The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' formal entry into World War II.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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The Philippines
Desc: The Philippines Campaign or the Battle of the Philippines, fought 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942, was the invasion of the Philippines by Imperial Japan and the defense of the islands by United States and Filipino forces during the Second World War.
Article: https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=46
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Japanese internment camps
Desc: Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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Battle of Midway
Desc: The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
Video: https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2018/06/the_battle_of_midway_the_turni.html -
Guadalcanal
Desc: The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal
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Stalingrad
Desc: The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkELWFqGKQ&vl=en-US -
Island Hopping
Desc: Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
Article: https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1671.html
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D-Day
Desc: The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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Meeting at Yalta
Desc: The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
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Death of Hitler
Desc: Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, as his “1,000-year” Reich collapses above him.
Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker
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Fall of Berlin
Desc: The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II.
Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml
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Los Alamos
Desc: Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
Article: http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/mp/p4s25.shtml
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Meeting at Potsdam
Desc: Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier on 8 May (Victory in Europe Day). The goals of the conference also included the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
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Hiroshima
Desc: During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement.
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso
