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Nuremburg Laws
antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party -
Muinch Conference
Settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland -
Kristallnacht
also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht , Pogromnacht , and Novemberpogrome was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians -
Death Camps
were camps built by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–45) to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions -
St. Louis Affair
was tied up at Shed 76 awaiting its next voyage which was to take Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba -
German Invasion of Poland
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 -
German Invasion of France
was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces -
Dunkirk
important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany -
Invasion of North Africa
between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century -
Death of FDR
Cerebral hemorrhage -
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. -
Wake Island
began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan -
Wannsee Conference
was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942 -
Bataan Death March
was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II -
Fire Bombing of Tokyo
was conducted as part of the air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II -
Coral Sea Battle
major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia -
Midway
was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union -
Guadalcana
was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily United States) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II -
Fall of Rome
marked the death knell of education and literacy, sophisticated architecture, advanced economic interaction, and, not least, the rule of written law. -
Sicily Invasion
codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat -
Invasion of Italy
was the Allied landing on mainland Italy on 3 September 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group uring the Second World War -
Tarawa Battle
battle in the Gilbert Islands, in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Tehran Conference
was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943 -
D-Day
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. -
Phillipines
the long American and Filipino land, sea, and aviation campaigns of October '44 through August '45 over allied combantants. Major battles in this campaign included: -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II. -
Iwo Jima
Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire -
Okinawa
was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union -
VE Day
was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe -
Nagasaki
the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuclear attack.[1] -
Trinity Test
was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 -
Potsdam Conference
was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. -
VJ Day
the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. -
Hiroshima
the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II -
Enola Gay
Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber