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Annexation of Sudetenland
September 30, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany signed the Munich Pact that officially sanctioned German annexation of the Sudetenland. Germany wanted the Sudetenland to Expand its territory.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is most known for the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States entry into World War II. It resulted in the destruction or damage of many ships, aircraft, and facilities, and over 2,400 Americans were killed. The attack propelled the U.S. to declare war on Japan the following day.
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The Philippines war
It was a strategic battleground between the United States and Japan. The battles in the Philippines were among the most intense of the Pacific War, highlighting the resilience of the Filipino people and the strategic importance of the islands in the fight against Japan. video -
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese internment camps were facilities used by the U.S. government during World War II to forcibly relocate and imprison Japanese Americans, particularly those living on the West Coast. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the forced removal of around 120,000 Japanese Americans.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive U.S. victory over the Japanese navy that took place from June 4–7, 1942. The battle was a turning point in World War II -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1942 was one of the most significant and brutal battles of World War II. It was a major confrontation between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union.
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Island-hopping
The US “island hopping” strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply -
Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was a crucial campaign in the Pacific of World War II, marking the first major Allied offensive against the Japanese Empire. video -
D-Day
D-Day, officially known as Operation Overlord, was the largest amphibious invasion in history and marked the beginning of the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. video -
Meeting at Yalta
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater
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Fall of Berlin
Fall of Berlin was the final major battle of World War II in Europe and led to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler died by suicide on April 30, 1945, in his bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. As Soviet forces closed in on the city during the final days of World War II in Europe, Hitler and his longtime partner, Eva Braun, took their own lives—Hitler by gunshot to the head and Braun by ingesting cyanide.
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Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies.
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Los Alamos
Led by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the staff at this secret Manhattan Project location called Los Alamos was responsible for the development and testing of the nuclear weapons -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a city in Japan that became the first in history to be targeted by an atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," on Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped by the Enola Gay.
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