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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland contained ethnic Germans and was in Czechoslovakian borders following World War 1. In a part of Hitler's plan for Germany he wanted to reunite the Germany people under the Nazi government. It went from 10/1/1938 to 10/10/1938. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Honolulu. It happened on a Sunday morning just before 8:00 -
The Philippines
The Philippines was attacked by the empire of Japan on December 8, 1941, nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1944 the allied forces liberated the islands from Japanese control in a naval invasion. -
Japanese Interment Camps
Japanese Internment Camps were establishes during world war II by president FDR through his executive order. From 1942 to 1945 it was policy of US Government that Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. February 19, 1942 to March 20, 1946 -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a battle for an island. It was a wanted island because of all of the airfields that it contained. It was a decisive naval battle and it took place six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It took place 4-7 June 1942 -
Guadalcanal
The battle of Guadalcanal by american forces was a military campaign fought between august 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of world war II -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, where Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The battle of Stalingrad for one of Russia's important industrial cities ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied Forces, this went on until 2/2/1943. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping was a military strategy employed by the allies in the pacific war against the axis powers during world war II. It was taking over an island and establishing a military base on it which was then used as a launching point to hop to another island. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944 in world war II, allied forces invaded northern France by landing paratroopers and boat beach landings in Normandy -
Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference was held February 4 through February 11, 1945, was the world war II meeting of the heads of government of the US, UK and Soviet Union to discuss post war reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Death of Hitler
Hitlers cause of death was a suicide. -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project with a single purpose to design and build an atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945 the worlds first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at the Trinity Site bombing range. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference, The Big Three, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman met in Potsdam Germany from July 17 to August 2, 1945 to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on august 6 and 9 of 1945 to get Japan to surrender. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened when east german spokesman Gunter Schabowski announced that east Germans would be able to travel into west Germany with some regulations still in place
