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Japanese Conquest of Manchuria
On September 18th, 1931, Japan attacked the land of Manchuria. Within a few days, Japanese forces had occupied several points of South Manchuria.
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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between October 1st and October 10th in 1938. Germany invaded Czechoslovakia with a portion being annexed.
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WWII Begins
On this date, Germany launched an invasion on Poland. This led Great Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state.
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Pearl Harbor
On this date, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on America's Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt labeled this as "a day which will live in infamy."
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Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway. ... The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. Fought just a month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was the turning point of the Pacific Campaign. Skill, daring, and luck all played a part.
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Battle of Guadacanal
With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction.
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Island Hopping
As MacArthur's troops leapt from island to island in the southwest Pacific, a central Pacific campaign began with the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943. By the end of the year, a two-pronged assault on Japan was well underway.
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Battle of Stalingrad
In this battle, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad. However, the Soviet Union comes out with the victory which causes the fall of the German 6th Army.
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D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D.
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Battle of The Philippines
After U.S. forces were defeated from the islands, regaining the Philippines became an important goal, especially for General MacArthur, who had been forced to evacuate from his headquarters there in 1942 when the Japanese attacked.
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Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference was an important conference in which the leaders of the Big Three met in February 1945 to discuss plans for the end of World War II and the future of the world. The Yalta Conference was attended by Franklin D. ... At the Yalta Conference Stalin pledged that free elections would be held in Poland.
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Death of Adolf Hitler
On this date, Adolf Hitler was in his underground bunker. This is where he later committed suicide by taking cyanide.
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Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was the last major battle in Europe during World War II. It resulted in the surrender of the German army and an end to Adolf Hitler's rule.
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Los Alamos
On this day in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Meeting at Potsdam
Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. ... The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
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Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
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