WWII Timeline

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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany held a conference in Munich on September 29–30, 1938. They spoke with Hitler for peace in return for the annexation of Sudetenland.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    This was a surprise military attack from Japan on the naval base in Hawaii. It was on Sunday, December 12th just before 8 am when Japan bombed us and caught America off guard.
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  • The Philippines

    The Philippines
    The entire Philippine nation was ravaged and its capital Ma- nila, once called the Pearl of the Orient, became the second most devastated city during World War II after Warsaw, Poland
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    A government laboratory that was used during ww2 as a nuclear bomb test. They tested the dangers of the bomb and how destructive it was.
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    America placed any people of Japanese decent living in the US into these camps because of suspicion of spies and insiders during the war. These camps were ruthless and they were surrounded by barbed wire.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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  • Island-hopping

    Island-hopping
    Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance. As Japanese strongholds were isolated, defenders were left to weaken from starvation and disease.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. It’s known for its WWII relics, plus dive sites like palm-fringed Bonegi Beach, with 2 two sunken Japanese wartime vessels. Honiara’s busy Central Market sells produce and traditional handicrafts.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    Two Romanian armies, the Third and the Fourth, were involved in the Battle of Stalingrad, helping to protect the northern and southern flanks respectively, of the German 6th Army as it tried to conquer the city of Stalingrad defended by the Soviet Red Army in mid to late 1942
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    The Normandy landings 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. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II 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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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Battle of Berlin, designated as 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.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    Compromise, it turned out, had not been a way to find agreement but a way to lure an opponent that extra inch into a trap
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 of August 1945 by the United States. This was a direct result of the bombing of pearl harbor.
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