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Annexation of Sudetenland
Hitler and his forces invaded the country of Bohemia in an attempt to regain land signed away in the Treaty of Versailles.
(https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland)
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Island Hopping
Island Hopping was a military strategy that allowed the united States to take over pacific islands to reach the Japanese mainland( https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944)
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a Japanese attack on an American Naval Base. This attack led to a great fear and caused the United States to enter into the war (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor)
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Japanese Internment Camps
The Japanese Internment Camps were forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps for those of Japanese Descent (https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation)
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The battle of midway
This was a turning point on the Pacific battlefront The United states navy led a daring effort against the Japanese.
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Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific in the Solomon Islands, Northeast of Australia against the Japanese.
( https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal)
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Stalingrad
Stalingrad was a successful defense of the Soviet Union from German Forces. Their defense allowed the USSR to turn to the allies' side
(https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad)
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D-Day
D-Day was a large assault on the Germans on the eastern front from the allies on the beaches of Normandy, France. The assault is the largest in military history and allowed for the Allies to regain France from German control.
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The Philippines
The Philippines campaign, the Battle of the Philippines or the Liberation of the Philippines, was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1944%E2%80%931945))
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The Meeting of Yalta
The meeting at yalta was a meeting between the USSR and the United States that discussed the use of Nuclear Weapons
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Battle of Berlin
The battle of berlin was the USSR'S last advance on Eastern front between the USSR and Germany.
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The death of Hitler
As the Allied forces gained more ground, adolf Hitler knew his reign would come to an end. He and his newly wedded wife were in their underground bunker and they thought their only option was suicide. The record says that he swallowed a cyanide pill and shot himself in order to escape capture
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Los Alamos
Los Alamos was a military base during WW2 where the United states divisived the Manhattan Project; a program used to develope Nuclear weapons.
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The meeting of Potsdam
This was the meeting between the USSR and the United States letting Josef Stalin know that they have successfully tested a nuclear weapon
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The bombing of Hiroshima
After the successful uranium bomb test, the United States decided to do one final attack Japan. They dropped a bomb nicknamed "little boy" and let out an explosion that destroyed 5 square miles of the city
(https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki)
