WWll Assignment

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  • Annexation of Sudentenland

    Annexation of Sudentenland
    The Annexation of Sudentenand occured when Adolf Hitler sent Nazis to take control of the region followinf the Munich Agreement. This gave Germany more power and paved the way for their future aggression in Europe.
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  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    In a suprise attack against the United States, who was neutral to the war at the time, Japanese forces destroyed the military base, killing hundreds of soldeirs and effectively destroying the Pacifc fleet. This attack engraged American citizens and led to the United States officially entering the war.
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  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps
    With the aggresions occuring the the pacific, American in the United States began to question the integrity of Japanese-Americans, beleliving they were spies for Japan. Thus, Order 9066 was passed, sending over 100,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
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  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a turning point in WWll for Allied victory. In this battle, the US Navy destroyed a Japanese invasion fleet and put the expansion of the Japanese poweres in the Pacific to a halt.
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  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad changed the course of WWll in Europe when German advances into the Soviet Union were halted. This makred the firdt time Hitler admitted defeat and led to German defensive aggressions until the end of the war.
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  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal
    The Guadalcanal represents the first U.S. Offensive in the Pacific. The United States victory proved that Japan could be defeated and prompted the begining of the Island-Hopping offense.
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  • Island-Hopping

    Island-Hopping
    The Allied offensive strategy known as Island-Hopping outlines the miltary advancement strategy in which the United States captured one island at a time to hinder Japanese forces and condense their area of control.
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  • The Battle of the Philippines

    The Battle of the Philippines
    The Battle of Philippines was an advance by the Japanese military to overtake the Philippine islands. Control of the islands would provide them with more resources and would weaken United States Air Force which would allow them to expand their area.
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  • Los Alamos

    Los Alamos
    Located in New Mexico, Los Alamos was home to one of 4 sites scientist such as J. Robert Oppenheimer used to develope and test nuclear weapons that would be used to end WWll once and for all. At this site, the atomic bombs sent to Hiroshima and Nagasaki were created and eventually were sent to bomb Japan.
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  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Also known as Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France by air, land, and sea carried out by Allied powers initaited a turning point for WWll on the European front. The overwhelming invasions established a foothold in Europe and allowed troops to push through the battle front and regain land occupied by Germany.
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  • Meeting at Yalta

    Meeting at Yalta
    At the Yalta Conference allied leaders such as Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin gathered to discuss the future of Germany after WWll and make postwar decsions. During the conference, Germany was divided into 4 sections and Stalin agreed to declare war on Japan.
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  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    When it became clear to Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, that they lost the Battle of Berlin and would lose the war, he commited sucide. In a secret bunker, Hitler retreated and hid where he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head which ended his life.
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  • Fall of Berlin

    Fall of Berlin
    The Fall fo Berlin was Hitler's final push of destruction in his Therd Reich. The fall ended with an Allied victory when the Soviets seized the Reichstag itself which began the end of the war in Europe.
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  • Meeting at Potsdam

    Meeting at Potsdam
    The Meeting at Potsdam was a final gathering of the Allied powers to plan the end of WWll. Here they settled matters relating to Germany and formed a council to draft peace treaties with former Axis powers in the future.
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  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    On August 6, 1945, in a strong-armed attempt to end the war with Japan, the United States dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima. This bomb destroyed the city and cost thousands their lives, but proved to Japan that the United States was more powerful then they realized.
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