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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. -
Japanese Internment Camps
President Roosevelt established these camps and interred Japanese people into these camps -
Island-Hopping
This was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific war against the Axis powers. -
Stalingrad
This was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany fought the Soviet Union for control over the city Stalingrad -
Battle of Midway
This was a naval battle on the Pacific theater of World War II and resulted in an American victory. -
Guadalcanal
This was a military campaign fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
D-day
Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day was when American, British and Canadian forces landed on beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
The Phillipines
This was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel Japanese forces occupying the Philippines. -
Meeting at Yalta
This was a conference between the allies for the reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Fall of Berlin
This was one of the last offensives of the European theatre of World War II -
Death of Hitler
This was when Hitler committed suicide. -
Los Alamos
This was the location where we tested a plutonium bomb. -
Meeting at Potsdam
This was the conference to negotiate terms to end World War II. -
Hiroshima
This was the day when World War II ended by the Americans dropping the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
