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The Sudetenland is an area of land between Germany, Austria, and the former Czechoslovakia named after the Sudeten Mountains. Austria. In1938 the Sudeten German Party leader Konrad Henlien began working closely with Adolf Hitler.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland
video https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html -
U.S. naval base that got attacked by the Japanese. This caused the U.S to join WWII.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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They were attacked by the Japanese just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The U.S. went and set up base to protect the Philippines.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan
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The battle of Guadalcanal was one of the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies powers in the pacific region. U.S. launched a surprise attack of an airbase that was under construction.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal
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Established by FDR through the Executive Order 9066. This is where the Japanese-Americans where put because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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A battle between the U.S. and Japan that lasted six months. The Japanese ended up loosing this battle.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
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Germany attacked the USSR and the USSR won. It was the turning point of the war and weakened the German defense.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad
video: https://www.britannica.com/video/180233/Overview-Battle-of-Stalingrad -
Around 126,000 forces from the U.S., Britain and Canada landed on France's beaches and invaded them. The attack was one of the biggest military assaults in history.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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This is where the Allied power leaders met to discuss about Germany and the rest of Europe. This is where the infamous picture of FDR, Stalin and Churchill was taken. The meeting ended February 11th 1945
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
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A military strategy by the Allied powers in the Pacific war against the Axis powers. The Allied powers would invade and take over an island and put a military base there. The island hopping lasted around three years.
https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-across-the-pacific-2361460
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1.5 million USSR troops invade Berlin from the east and the west. Hitler refuses to leave and decides to stay in an underground bunker in the center of the city. The fall of Berlin ended May 2nd 1945.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm
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Hitler was hiding in the bunker when he killed himself. He died by a gun shot.
https://www.history.com/news/hitler-death-cause-teeth-analysis
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Where The U.S. tested the atomic bombs. Los Alamos is located in New Mexico.
https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/
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This is where one of the last meetings that the Allied powers had in Germany. Harry S. Truman was the president at the time.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
video: https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/potsdam-conference-changed-the-world-75-years-ago/OEBPDYBD3FCMVFVHM23VDEEXAU/ -
U.S. dropped the first ever atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. The impact of the bomb instantly killed 80,000 people.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxWNAM8Cso