WWll Project-Laurel Deitz

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  • Annexation of Sudetenland

    Annexation of Sudetenland
    Once Hitler became in control, he wanted all of Germany to be united in one nation. His idea was to gain control of Sudentenland, an area where 3 million Germans lived.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese and American forces seemed to be at peace until this surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Many ships were destroyed, and many people were killed. This event pulled the United States out of a state of isolationism, and into the war.
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  • Battle of the Philippines

    Battle of the Philippines
    The Battle of the Philippines, also known as the Philippines campaign was a naval battle between Japan and the US. The US territory of the Philippines was invaded, but the US won, and the battle ended with the US landing on Saipan.
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  • Island-hopping

    Island-hopping
    Island hopping was when countries skipped over heavily fortified islands in order to take over the smaller, less defended islands. This military strategy was used against the Japanese to disrupt enemy supply lines.
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    During WWll, people of Japanese descent were relocated to internment camps in the west. After Pearl Harbor, Americans became very worried about Japanese spies, so over 127,000 people were imprisoned.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    This battle was the turning point for the war. It was between the US and Japan. Japanese plans were intercepted, so the US was able to plan out their own trap. The trap ended up working and the American forces won.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    The Battle of Guadalcanal was a major battle between US and Japan. This was the first offensive attack by the US in WWll. This battle lasted 6 months,and the US was victorious.
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    The Manhattan Project took place here during WWll. This was where the testing and production of the first nuclear weapons ocurred. J Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist who led this development, which eventually led to the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    This was one of the bloodiest and deadliest battles. Germany bombed the Volga River, and then began taking large portions of the city. Soviets hid all over the city, and surprised the Germans. After trapping the Germans they were forced to surrender which enraged Hitler.
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    "Little Boy" was the name of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Around 80,000 people were killed instantly, and then more were killed by radiation exposure. 3 days later another bomb was dropped.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Also known as the invasion of Normandy, D-Day was when the allied forces attacked German forces on the Coast of Normandy, France.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    The meeting at Yalta was when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin all discussed the conditions that the USSR would enter the war against Japan forces.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Everyone was searching for Hitler in Berlin. Instead of being hung upside down similar to Mussolini, Hitler decided to commit suicide.
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    Stalin, Churchill, and Truman meet in Potsdam to negotiate terms for the end of WWll.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Berlin wall was built to separate East and West Berlin. The walls main purpose was to keep people from fleeing East Berlin.
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