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Czechoslovakia was allied to France and the Soviet Union. Germany invades Czechoslovakia and takes control of Sudetenland.
Article-[https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/life-in-nazi-occupied-europe/foreign-policy-and-the-road-to-war/occupation-of-the-sudetenland/]
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Japan wanted to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The fleet was stationed at Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked and bombed Pearl Harbor killing thousands.
Article-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Video-https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/attack-pearl-harbor-1941 -
President FDR issued the document, Executive Order 9066, which sent all Japanese Americans to internment camps. The U.S. feared they were spying for Japan so they placed them in internment camps.
Article- https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation#:~:text=Japanese%20internment%20camps%20were%20established,be%20incarcerated%20in%20isolated%20camps.
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Major turning point in the war, especially on the Pacific Theater. U.S. stopped all further advancements of Japan.
Article-https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/battle-of-midway#:~:text=The%20Battle,the%20US%20base%20on%20Midway.
Video-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-battle-midway-180973516/ -
An island in the pacific. It was the first piece of territory the allies took back from Japan.
Article- https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal
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Germany and it's allies fought The Soviet Union for control of the city Stalingrad. This battle significantly weakened Germany's military.
Article and Video-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
U.S. and it's allies invade the beaches of Normandy. France was invaded and under the control of Germany. Liberated France.
Article and Video-https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Was trying to keep Japan from occupying the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur was forced out of the Philippines, he returned and took back the Philippines.
Article- https://totallyhistory.com/philippines-campaign/
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The leaders of the Allies, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, all met to discuss the postwar reorganization of Europe and Germany.
Article- https://www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/wwii-m2v/
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Japan was trying to invade and take over small islands in the pacific. In order to stop them the U.S. started island hopping. They were hoping to get to these islands and keep Japan from invading them.
Article- https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLjw8qaexY -
On of the European theater's last major offences. Germany officially surrenders.
Article-https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048
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Hitler knew the war was over for Germany and he didn't want to be humiliated by an execution. He took a cyanide pill to kill himself. He also gave his wife a cyanide pill.
Article and Video-https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide -
The Manhattan Project started and the U.S. started creating atomic bombs to drop on Japan. They decided the testing site for the bombs would be in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Article-https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-summer/trinity-feature.shtml
Video-https://www.atomicheritage.org/tour-stop/trinity-test-0 -
Allied Leaders, Truman, Stalin, and Churchill (replaced by Attlee), meet in Germany to negotiate terms for the end of the war. Lasted from July 1945 to August 1945.
Article- https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
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U.S. drops the atomic bomb named, little boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The U.S. was hoping for Japan to completely surrender. However, they did not.
Article- https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_1z5FOCvA
