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Los Alamos was used for the Manhattan Project, it was used as a laboratory for the creation of the first nuclear weapons.
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(https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html#lesson) Three countries agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland so Germany wouldn't invade Czechoslovakia.
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A surprise bombing attack from the Japanese during WW2, over 2,000 people were killed and the USS Arizona was destroyed.
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Largest confrontation in WW2, Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.
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Camps created for the Japanese during WW2 after Pearl Harbor was bombed, any person of Japanese ancestry was sent here, over 120,000 people were in them.
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A military strategy used during WW2, it was used against the axis powers, it was also known as Leapfrogging and it is when the allies would put specific resources, military personnel or supplies, on important islands to prepare for attack.
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A military strategy used during WW2, it was used against the axis powers, it was also known as Leapfrogging and it is when the allies would put specific resources, military personnel or supplies, on important islands to prepare for attack.
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Navel battle in the pacific theater, took place six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Military campaign, and first major offensive and first win for the Pacific theater. The Japanese lost a total of 24,000 men while the US only lost around 1,600 and 4,200 were wounded.
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Allies invade Normandy in operation Overloard. The end result was a victory for the Allies.
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The heads of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union meet after the war to discuss the reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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One of the last major offensives of the European theater, during this time, the people of Berlin gathered in a mass protest for the wall that was built.
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Hitler takes his own life.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman all got together and met in Potsdam to talk about the terms of WW2.
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The United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The treaty of Manila is signed and The Philippines gains full independence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a17C8N7c9Gw
