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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany
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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States.
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The Philippines
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan, 9 hours after peal harbor.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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Stalingrad
A major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies.
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Guadalcanal
the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. ... Strategically, possession of a Guadalcanal air base was important to control of the sea lines of communication between the United States and Australia.
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D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Meeting at Yalta
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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Island Hopping
a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
This strategy began with the invasion of Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943
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Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. -
Death of Hitler
Hitler took cyanide and shooting himself in the head while he was in prison.
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Los Alamos
The Laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb
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Meeting at Postdam
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender and also included the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
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Hiroshima
The city in Japan during WWII that had an atomic bomb dropped on them.
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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. the last one in service was in March 1946.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans