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Japanese American Internment Executive Order
FDR told military to round up all Japanese and send them to restricted military areas/internment camps -
Battle of Stalingrad
Luftwaffe bombed Stalingrad until 90% destroyed, but soviets laid siege to the city and they starved the germans until surrender on february 2, 1943 -
Battle of El Almain
London launched surprise attack on Germany at El Almain, Egypt-won by november 4 -
Meeting between Churchill and FDR
developed joint war policy, based on Stalin's idea of attacking Germany on two fronts -
Fall of Afrika Korps
In Operation Torch, Montgomery and Eisenhower surrounded Afrika Korps and crushed them -
Invasion of Italy/Italy Surrenders
Allies landed in Sicily and won about a month later -
D-Day
Allies faked out Germany and attacked unsuspected beach in Normandy, july 25 broke through german barriers -
Battle of the Bulge
german tanks broke through american defenses in the Ardennes but eventually were driven back, signals beginning of the end for the germans -
Iwo Jima
American Marines took island, first actual capture of japanese land -
Okinawa
Battle between Americans and Japanese, Japanese lost -
V-E day/Germany Surrenders
germany surrenders unconditionally, signed treaty in berlin -
Potsdam Conference
The Big 3 meet to discuss how Germany would be split up -
Hiroshima
US dropped atomic bomb in japan, killing over 70,000 people -
Nagasaki
second atomic bomb dropped on japan, killing an additional 70,000 people, caused japanese to finally surrender, ending the war -
Japan Surrenders
After both atomic bombs, surrendered to Douglass MacArthur in Tokyo Bay -
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Nuremberg Trials
When nazi war criminals were put on trial in nuremberg Germany,
22 nazi leaders charged with waging war of aggresion -
Japanese Constitution/The Diet
US created new constitution for japan, making it into a constitutional monarchy, parliament called the diet