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Prewar Munich Conference
-Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France where all part of the agreement.
-The agreement was Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Germany -
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Women in the war
-While men where off fighting in the war, women stepped in to their jobs to help out back home.
-Women worked in factories that produced supplies for the troops, became nurses, and some even became spies -
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Act
-The two countries (Germany and the Soviet Union) agreed that the would take no military action against each other for 10 years.
-The agreement also contained a secret plan in which the soviets and germans would divide up eastern Europe for themselves. -
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Battle of the Atlantic
-The Battle of the Atlantic was a battle between the Western Allies and the Axis Powers (mainly Germany)
-The Battle of the Atlantic was fought over control of Atlantic sea routes -
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Genocide
-Genocide is a crime recognized under international law.
-Genocide is the systematic murder of an entire national, ethnic, or religious group. -
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Operation Barbarossa
-Original name was operation Fitz.
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Asia Japanese Invasion of China
-the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria.
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Pearl Harbor
-The US (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) was suddenly attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan
-This attack managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. -
Battle of Midway
-6 months after Pearl Harbor, Japan lost to the US in one of the most important battles in American History.
-This being the turning point in the Pacific Campaign, it allowed the US and their allies to move to the offensive. -
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Battle of El Alamein
-The Battle of El Alamein was part of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army.
-The Allied victory lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa in May 1943. -
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Africa Tunisia Campaign
-The sudden entrance of American forces created an awkward deployment in which two pairs of opposing armies fought in North Africa, in Tunisia and Libya.
-The British desperately needed assistance to secure Egypt and strategic resources in the Near East. -
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The Casablanca Conference
-The Casablanca Conference was held in Casablanca, Morocco between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
-This conference planned future global military strategies for the Western Allies. -
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Invasion of Italy
-The British 8th Army began the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria.
-That day, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no one knew untilSeptember 8. -
D-Day
-156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches of the heavily fortified coast of the France Normandy region.
-D-day is one of the largest military assaults in history. -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-The US learned that the Germans where experimenting with nuclear fission.
-Albert Einstein warned Roosevelt at first, although Roosevelt did not at first seem impressed with this warning, further testimony eventually moved him.
