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A few allies and Germany signed a pack that officially sanctioned German annexation of the Sudetenland.
YouTube
(https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/life-in-nazi-occupied-europe/foreign-policy-and-the-road-to-war/occupation-of-the-sudetenland/) -
Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance.
(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944)
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Japan unexpectedly attacks the military base of Pearl Harbor and drags America into the war.
www.theholocaustexplained.org
(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/pearl-harbor-december-7-1941) -
The Japanese attacked The Philippines before American forces had fully amassed and were ready for the war.
(https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Philippines/World-War-II)
(https://www.dvidshub.net/video/806296/liberation-manila-wwii-documentary) -
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal was an Allied offensive against forces of the Empire of Japan in the Solomon Islands
(https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbVc6rVUdXo) -
Camps America made to contain Japanese Americans in fear of spies.
(https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation)
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US troops at sea and on Midway attacks the Japanese air fleet, forcing the Japanese to abandon the battle and retreat.(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-midway) -
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad
(https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad)
(https://www.britannica.com/video/Battle-of-Stalingrad-fighting-Germans-Allied-Victory/-18896) -
One of the couple site the nuclear bomb was worked on.
(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/making-public-what-was-once-secret-los-alamos-and-manhattan-project)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M) -
The Allied forces storm Normandy beach to take back France
(https://www.army.mil/d-day/)
(https://www.europeafrica.army.mil/DDay/videoid/928206/) -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
(https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf)
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The biggest Russian army to ever be grouped attacked Berlin leading to its fall.
(https://www.britannica.com/topic/Battle-of-Berlin)
(https://study.com/academy/lesson/video/victory-in-europe-the-battle-of-berlin-the-downfall-of-the-nazi-regime.html) -
The death of Adolf Hitler ended the war in Europe and freed Germany from a tyrant.
(https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-adolf-hitler)
(https://www.britannica.com/video/War-surrender-Europe-Germany-May-1945/-194180) -
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany
(https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf)
(https://www.britannica.com/video/Overview-Potsdam-Conference/-194273) -
One of the two major cities in Japan were bombed
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3wxWNAM8Cso&t=58s)