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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Annexation of Sudetenland occurred as the aftermath of the Munich Agreement between Nazi Germany and Allied Powers. Hitler demanded autonomy for the ethic Germans of the Sudetenland region on the Western region of Czechoslovakia. Article: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLGRYiF_ZQ -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl harbor was a inlet of the Pacific on the southern coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service upon the USA. The attacked started just before 8:00 on a Sunday. Their were 2403 deaths on at attack on Pearl Harbor Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4BG4VBtEs -
Japanese Internment Camps
The camps were established during WW2 by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. It was the policy of the U.S government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLvLhy1RUQ -
Battle of Midway
The U.S got a victory in the air-sea battle and its defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the U.S. as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of WW2 in the pacific Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-midway Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GAYEDzEeg -
Stalingrad
This was a major battle between German and Soviet troops in World War II. This battle was fought in the winter of 1942-1943 and ended with the surrender of an entire German army. Stalingrad is considered a major turning point of the war in favor of the allies. Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtjjpqD5nsg -
Guadalcanal
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Island, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9kk3ztpyM -
The Philippines
The combines American-Filipino army was defected in the Battle of Bataan and the Battle of Corregidor in April 1942, but guerrilla resistance against the Japanese continued throughout the war. The uncaptured Filipino army supported the American agents and all played a important role in the resistance. Article: https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/story/Article/2048611/us-forces-began-main-battle-for-philippines-75-years-ago/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-I4Bay5SXo -
D-Day
The Normandy landing were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. 4400 troops died from the combined allied forces. Some 9000 were wounded or missing. The German casualties are not known but they are estimated around 4000 and 9000 men. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8zbhGQuzc -
Meeting at Yalta
The big three argeed that after Germany's unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post war occupations zones. They were controlled by the U.S, British, French and Soviet military forces. The city of Berlin would also be divided into similar occupation zones. Article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHbOtTQxWE -
Island-Hopping
Island Hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination. In order to defeat Japan, the United States came up with a plan that was known as "Island Hopping".
Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHfoQsF2Y4 -
Death of Hitler
By early 1945, Nazi Germany was on the verge of total military collapse. Then Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife, Eva Braun, of one day committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide-in-his-underground-bunker Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlWltef36o -
Fall of Berlin
On November 9, 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoBjBzW0pWQ -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference was the last meeting of world war II held by the leaders of U.S., England and Soviet Union.The leaders arrived to agreements about the the German economy, war criminals punishments and land Boundaries. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpf-ZYVYKng -
Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. Ten of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgp6ZH-by-E -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos is a town in New Mexico, that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bomb. The primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during the WWII. As of right now the population of Los Alamos is 12,666. Article: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M