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Annexation of Sudetenland
Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement marking a crucial event on the road to World War II.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor leading the United States into World War II.
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Los Alamos
The secret U.S. research camp where scientists constructed the first atomic bombs under the Manhattan Project.
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Island hopping
A U.S. military strategy in the Pacific where forces chose to attack strategic islands bypassing strongly defended Japanese positions.
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Japanese Interment camp
Over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to relocate and interned in camps across the U.S. due to wartime hysteria regarding espionage.
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Battle of Midway
A turning point in the war with a naval battle in which the U.S. defeated Japan severely weakening the Japanese Navy and reversing the tide in the Pacific.
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Guadalcanal Campaign
The first major Allied campaign against Japan in the Pacific resulted in a victory that changed the momentum of the war.
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Battle of Stalingrad
A brutal battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ended in a conclusive Soviet triumph and a critical change in the war(turning point).
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D Day
The Allied forces launched an overloaded land attack on Normandy beaches France, to begin liberating Western Europe from the Nazi occupation.
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Battle of the Philippines
Allied forces led by General MacArthur took the Philippines back from Japanese occupation in a series of campaigns.
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Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met regarding post war Europe including the division of Germany and the establishment of the United Nations.
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Fall of Berlin
The final push of the European war was when the Soviet forces took Berlin and led Germany to surrender.
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker as Soviet forces closed in bringing Nazi Germany to an end.
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Potsdam Conference
Truman, Stalin, and Churchill, and then later Attlee met to agree on terms for the conclusion of World War II and the surrender of Japan.
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Atomic Bomb dropping
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan producing extensive destruction and prompting Japan's final surrender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki