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Annexation of Sudetenland
On September 30, 1938 Sudetenland was annexed by Germany. An agreement was made called “The Munich Pact” that allowed German annexation of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. The pact was made and signed in Munich, Germany.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii trying to wipe out the naval base so they could have full dominance over the Pacific Ocean. Shortly after this attack, the United States declared war on Japan and was officially in the war.
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Invasion of Philippines (Battle of The Philippines)
During the war, Imperial Japan invaded the Philippines which was home to many United States military bases. This invasion began 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Japanese Internment Camps
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S was scared of Japanese-Americans planning something else against the U.S or that they were secret spies. FDR ordered Japanese-Americans into internment camps through order 9066
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Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway was the turning point of war in the pacific. The battle was fought at Midway Atoll. The United States won and it allowed the allies to move into an offensive position.
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Guadalcanal
Battle of Guadalcanal was fought by the Allies and the Japanese troops. The U.S marines launched a surprise attack on the Japanese stationed on a section of the Solomon Islands. Both sides of the battle endured heavy losses, yet the Japanese lost more. The Japanese had lost two-thirds of the 31,400 army troops by the end of the battle and the U.S had lost about 2,000 of about 60,000.
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Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad is considered the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. It was fought between the Russians and Nazi Germany. Hitler wanted the Wehrmacht to occupy Stalingrad for the purpose of propaganda because it has Stalin's name on it. The Russians felt the need to protect Stalingrad, hence a battle came out of it.
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D-Day
American, British and Canadian forces landed along a 50-mile stretch of beach in France’s Normandy which was being controlled by Nazi Germany. The codename was operation overlord. It was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and it required extensive planning.
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Meeting at Yalta
This meeting was the second meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the meeting, the three leaders decided to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and they starting planning a post-war world. They also decided to set up in the conquered nation four zones of occupation to be run by their three countries and France.
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Island Hopping
This was a successful war strategy that allowed the U.S to gain control over islands in the Pacific Ocean to get closer to Japan to launch a mainland invasion. April 1st was the invasion of Okinawa, the bloodiest battle in the pacific. The Japanese launched massive Kamikaze attacks on the US invasion fleet. -
Fall of Berlin
The fall of Berlin was the end of the destruction of Hitler's third reich. Stalin sent out 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft trying to end German resistance and capturing Berlin. The allies waited to make an advance to give the soviets a free hand.
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Death of Hitler
Both Hitler and his wife, Eva Hitler, killed theirselves with cyanide capsules in a bunker in Berlin. Their bodies were burned, as Hitler requested.
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Los Alamos
This is where the U.S successfully exploded the first atomic bomb. Nicknamed "The Manhattan Project", the United States was trying to keep up with Germany's advances in atomic weapons. All the research and development was conveyed at this test site.
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Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam conference was the last of the meetings of WWII. It featured Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. They came to various agreement including demanding an unconditional surrender of Japan, punishment for war criminals, the German economy, land boundaries and reparations.
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Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb wiped out 90% of the city and caused 80,000 fatalities immediately. More would later die due to radiation exposure.
