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Annexation of Sudetenland
Because of its German majority, the Sudetenland later became a major source of contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia, and in 1938 participants at the Munich Conference, yielding to Adolf Hitler, transferred it to Germany. (October 1- 10, 1938) -
Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a bombing from Japan in an attempt to destroy America's naval fleet. The bombing actually brought America into the war. -
Japanese Interment Camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. (Lasted one closed in 1945) -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between( ended June 7, 1942) only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Island-hopping
Island hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code named Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign ( ended February 9, 1943) on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad ( ended February 2, 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
The Philippines
The Philippines played a critical role in American strategy during World War II. From June 1942 until October 1944, the only fighting that occurred in the Philippines was between Japanese occupying forces and guerrilla resistance fighters. -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Meeting at Yalta
Meeting held between Soviet Russia, United States, and Great Britain. The three leaders (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. (Ended February 11, 1945) -
Fall of Berlin
The Soviet Union invaded Berlin, and slowly the German Army. Hitler then killed himself so that he didn't face the humiliation. (ended in May 2, 1945) -
Death of Hitler
Hitler decided to remain in Berlin for the last great siege of the war. When the German army failed Hitler and his mistress committed suicide instead of being humiliated in front of the German people. -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos, New Mexico was where nuclear bombs were tested in WWII. -
Meeting at Postdam
The Potsdam Conference, held near Berlin ( ended August 2, 1945) was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. Attended by Stalin, Churchill, and Truman, the leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan, concealing the fact that they had privately agreed to let Japan retain its emperor. -
Hiroshima
The United States warned the Japanese to surrender to prevent the dropping a weapon of mass destruction. When the Japanese didn't surrender, the United States dropped the Atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Hiroshima.
