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https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.html
https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzomi4RNtiE Germany wanted to expand its territory to include the Sudetenland and gain control of key military defences in the area. Once it had control of these defences, invading the rest of Czechoslovakia would be considerably easier. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/path-pearl-harbor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVV7AX-lfQ Pearl Harbor is a U.S naval base located near Honolulu, Hawaii. Which was destroyed by the Japanese, before 8 a.m on December 7,194. Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was to drive the United States out of isolation and into World War II.However they killed many Americans, causing the US to join the war. -
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/liberation-of-philippines-cecilia-gaerlan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8boNQcnK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGpfCmyeQ8 Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Followed by landings of ground troops both north and south of Manila. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-american-incarceration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTioTkHcB0 The Japanese Internment Camps was basically a policy of the U.S government that the people of Japanese, including U.S. citizens, would be isolated in camps. This was to avoid any Japanese spies, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-midway
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-au50GxIXw The Japanese hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet, and used the Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor. Which became the turning point in the Pacific. The U.S Navy’s victory in the air-sea battle, and it was a very successful defense. Which cause Japan’s hope to neutralizing the U.S to go down. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-secure-guadalcanal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzCTvSQ4JY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-qHCW4CHk The Guadalcanal Campaign ended all Japanese expansion attempts and placed the Allies in a position of clear supremacy. using Guadalcanal as bases in supporting a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-stalingrad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkELWFqGKQ The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zx3X08saO8 Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. the Allied lands on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation. The Operation Overlord marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by Nazi Germany. Less than a year later after the invasion, the Allies accepted Nazi Germany’s surrender. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZdgjY8I7E a postwar peace that represented not only a collective security order but also a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of Europe. the Big Three agreed that after Germany's unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post-war occupation zones -
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/war-in-the-pacific https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT-U0a_8Wo8 Island hopping was a military strategy used by the US to gain back the control of the pacific islands controlled by the Japanese during WWII. This strategy was very successful, because he got close enough to Japan to get Japan to surrender later on with the bombings. -
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52572544 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9fQPzZ1-hg The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification.East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-adolf-hitler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNV5pP-5FM0 Hitler’s officers warned him that the Russians were on their way and that it would only take them a day or two to take the chancellery. However Adolf Hitler did not escape to the Bavarian Alps, to a small town in Berchtesgaden. Instead he commited suicide in his underground bunker. -
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/manhattan-project-science-at-los-alamos.htm
https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/location/los-alamos-nm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAncOu6KG8s The U.S Army Corps of Engineers operated a secret laboratory hidden away in northern New Mexico. This Manhattan Project was locate in Los Alamos. It was the development of atomic bomb testing. These bombs was design to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8k1DZg0Lg The leaders of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union who had defeated Nazi Germany—met at the Potsdam Conference near Berlin. They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany, which would be divided into four Allied occupation zones. -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/atomic-bomb-hiroshima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgp6ZH-by-E American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb that was deployed. The U.S drop the bomb over the city of Hiroshima. The bombing cause many death, but yet Japan did not surrended from this bombing.