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Annexation of Sudetenland
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kSnlS4xX8 -
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The Philippines
Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during WWII.
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Los Alamos
the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during WWII.
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Japanese Internment Camps
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 with the intention of preventing espionage on American shores.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII after Pearl Harbor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkBW7X7LaU -
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Guadalcanal
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Stalingrad
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Island-Hopping
Military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan and the Axis powers during WWII.
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D-Day
the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is during WWII, the day of the Normandy landings initiating the Western Allied to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.
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Meeting at Yalta
WWII 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.
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Fall of Berlin
One of the last major offensives of the European theatre of WWII
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ('Leader') of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
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Meeting at Potsdam
WWII Allied conference held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin.
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Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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