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Annexation of Sudetenland
At the end of World War I, Germany was stripped of the Sudetenland and it was given to Czechoslovakia as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. When Adolf Hitler came to power during World War II he became insistent about reclaiming the territory Germany lost after the first war. In an attempt to stop Adolf Hitler from invading and claiming land like Czechoslovakia, the allies annexed the Sudetenland.
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese dropped a surprise bomb on the naval base Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 1000 people and lead to the United States's entry in the war.
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The Philippines
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At the start of World War II, the Philippines were United States territory, an ideal location between the Japanese and the South Pacific. The Japanese planned their surprise attack and unsuccessfully tried to cut off the US's withdrawal from the territory. -
Japanese Internment Camps
After Pearl Harbor, trust in Japanese Americans became a fine line and President Roosevelt established Executive Order 9066. The policy became that Americans of Japanese descent were ordered to go to isolated internment camps, making them leave almost everything behind. These camps are known as one of the most atrocious things the US has done. -
Battle of Midway
An allied victory against the Japanese in a naval battle. The Battle of Midway is commonly known as a turning point of the war in the Pacific. -
Guadalcanal
Known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, Guadalcanal is the first successful offensive for the allies in the Pacific theater. It was fought in the Solomon Islands and the Japanese had a larger number of casualties causing them to surrender. -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a huge brutal confrontation between Nazi German soldiers and Russian forces. This battle is known as one of the longest bloodiest battles in World War II with over 1.5 million casualties. -
Island-hopping
After the Battle of Midway, the US used island-hopping as a strategy to capture back key islands. This strategy was used to get closer to the Japanese bombers attempting to weaken them to end the war in the Pacific. -
D-Day
D-Day, code-named 'Operation Overlord', was the western invasion of the beaches of Normandy. D-Day resulted in many casualties but overall resulted in an allied success pushing them closer towards the overall allied victory of the war -
Meeting at Yalta
A second wartime meeting with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. This meeting is where the allied leaders insisted Germany's unconditional surrender and punishment. -
Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was a successful allied victory and attack on the German capital of Berlin. During the attack, an arc-like formation is used by the US army coming from the east while the Soviet Union attacks from the west.
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Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler moved into an underground bunker during the month of April. This bunker is where he had many meetings with generals and reporters and it was a safe space for him to stay. But after the Battle of Berlin, Germany had ultimately reached its end in the war and Hitler supposedly committed suicide in that very bunker. -
Los Alamos
A top-secret project labeled "The Manhattan Project" where the scientific community constructed the idea of the atomic bomb. Los Alamos, New Mexico is the site where the bombs were tested. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The last meeting between the Allied leaders or the "Big Three" including Truman, Stalin, and Churchill. The meeting focused on Japan's surrender and postwar Europe. -
Hiroshima
To stop the war with Japan, the US dropped two atomic bombs on two cities, the bombs deemed Fat Man and Little Boy. The bomb named Fat Man was the first bomb dropped on the city Hiroshima. The explosion wiped over 90 percent of the population.
