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Annexation of Sudetenland
This happened when Germany invaded the neutral place that was once theirs called the Sudetenland. It was taken from them after WWI so they deemed it their property still and invaded it and took it back. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese constructed a surprise attack on the US territory island called Pearl Harbor. They killed and injured many troops and destroyed much of the US naval fleet. -
Island Hopping
This was a form of militarism the US enacted against the Japanese to help fight with the expansion of the Pacific Islands. -
The Philippines
This was the attacking of the Japanese Empire but the defense of the United States. -
Battle of Midway
This was a extreme naval attack between the Japanese Empire and the United States 6 months after the bombing of pearl harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This was the largest battle in World War 2. After Adolf Hitler had betrayed Stalin, he attempted to invade The Soviet Union and seize control of some of their land. The first battle was Stalingrad. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
This battle was code named Operation Watchtower. It was a strategic battle between The Japanese Empire and the Allied Forces. -
D-Day
One of the biggest battles in WW2. Allied forces stormed the beach of Normandy in hopes of liberating France. -
Meeting at Yalta
This was a meeting between the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union on the matter of reorganizing Germany and Italy after the war. -
Fall of Berlin
Allied forces were closing in on all sides swarming Germany. The Nazi regime officially fell when Hitler killed himself. -
Death of Hitler
Realizing that he was not going to win the war against the Allied powers, he locked himself in a bunker and killed himself. Once this happened it was smooth sailing for the Allies to win the war. -
Los Alamos
A place that was provided by the Manhattan Project which was used to test nuclear bombs that we would later use on Japan. -
Meeting at Potsdam
A conference on what to do with Germany now that it's pretty much destroyed and claiming that we will do anything to make Japan surrender. -
Hiroshima
A nuclear war missile was dropped on this city in Japan to finally make them surrender. -
Japanese Internment Camps
The United States force any American citizens that had Japanese ancestry to be relocated to camps that were to house them.
