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Annexation of Sudetenland
Sudetenland was desired by Germany because of its territory and the majority of it's population was 'ethnically' German. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at the naval base. They killed around 2,403 men. -
Island - Hopping
Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance. -
Japanese Internment Camps
The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
The United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Guadalcanal
Allied forces landed on a small island in the Solomon Islands: Guadalcanal. It would take six long months of grueling battle before they would wrest control of the island from the enemy. -
Stalingrad
Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river. -
The Philippines
Once Japan occupied the Philippines, they technically granted them independence from the United States in 1943. -
D - Day
Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord'. -
Los Alamos
The development and testing of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. -
Meeting at Yalta
Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan. -
Death of Hitler
Hitler commited suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Germany crumbles. -
Meeting at Potsdam
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
Hiroshima
The U.S. Dropped a bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. It killed a lot of people.v -
Fall of Berlin
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification.