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Annexation Of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland, which was majority German population, was transferred into Czechoslovakia when the new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19. The annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany was the transferring of people that were apart of Germany back to Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
https://youtu.be/AslUxxcna6c
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. -
The Phillippines
At the start of WWII, the Philippine Islands were United States territory as per the 1898 Treaty of Paris and after Pearl Harbor the Japanese invaded the Philippine islands. The archipelago was home to 19 million people, and was at a strategic location between Japan and the South Pacific. -
Battle of Midway
https://youtu.be/YL5SPwBUios
This fleet engagement between U.S. and Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction at Pearl Harbor. The Americans sank four fleet carriers–the entire strength of the task force–Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, with 322 aircraft and over five thousand sailors -
Island Hopping
https://youtu.be/CuPQG7Hm9Zc
The idea was to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers. In an effort to liberate the people of the Philippine Islands, MacArthur pushed along the New Guinea coast with Australian allies, while Nimitz crossed the central Pacific by way of the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Carolines, and Palaus. -
Guadalcanal
On August 7, in the Allies’ first major offensive in the Pacific, 6,000 U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and seized the airfield, surprising the island’s 2,000 Japanese defenders. By November the U.S. Navy was able to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal faster than the Japanese, and by January 44,000 U.S. troops were on the island. -
Stalingrad
With fewer than 20,000 troops in the city and less than 100 tanks, Stalin’s generals finally began sending reinforcements into the city and surrounding areas. As Russia’s brutal winter began, Soviet generals knew the Germans would be at a disadvantage, fighting in conditions to which they weren’t accustomed and eventually the Axis powers gave in marking the first defeat for Hitler. -
Japanese Internment Camp
https://youtu.be/fcLXdGJFRkY
From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Military zones were created in California, Washington and Oregon states with a large population of Japanese America and Roosevelt’s executive order commanded the relocation of Americans of Japanese ancestry. -
D-Day
https://youtu.be/0Nn0ntHNJSA
The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Approximately 156,000 Allied troops had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches and more than 4,000 Allied troops lost their lives in the D-Day invasion, with thousands more wounded or missing. -
Meeting at Yalta
Yalta Conference was a major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. It had already been decided that Germany would be divided into occupied zones administered by U.S., British, French, and Soviet forces. -
Fall of Berlin
Stalin unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing German resistance and capturing Berlin. By April 24 the Soviet army surrounded the city slowly tightening its stranglehold on the remaining Nazi defenders. -
Death of Hitler
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. At his side were Eva Braun, whom he married only two days before their double suicide, and his dog, an Alsatian named Blondi. -
Los Alamos
Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington, the main assembly plant was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out windows of civilian homes up to 100 miles away. -
Meeting at Potsdam
On July 26, the leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan, concealing the fact that they had privately agreed to let Japan retain its emperor. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, placing primary emphasis on the development of agriculture and nonmilitary industry. -
Hiroshima
https://youtu.be/XMsg6I4rKSY
Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost 300,000 and was an important military center, containing about 43,000 soldiers.Within minutes 9 out of 10 people half a mile or less from ground zero were dead.
