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place of contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia; participants at the Munich Conference, yielding to Adolf Hitler, transferred Sudetenland to Germany. Article: https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Annexation_of_the_Sudetenland
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A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others https://www.hawaii.com/things-to-do/island-hopping/
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7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. Article:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
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After decades of nationalist resistance against the Spanish this Pacific Island nation proudly declared independence in 1898. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-I4Bay5SXohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-I4Bay5SXo -
The forcible relocation of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans to housing facilities called "War Relocation Camps", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Article:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
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Location of Manhattan project (to create atom bomb) in New Mexico; collection of best scientists available to the US in scientific community dedicated to atomic weaponry research for use in WWII https://www.britannica.com/topic/Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico -
one of the Solomon Islands in southwest Pacific, Japanese building airstrip https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Guadalcanal
2nd Naval Battle of Guadalcanal -
Decisive battle in German invasion of Russia, the Germans were surrounded and systemically destroyed
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad
Stalingrad class - Guide 061 -
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory. -
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss Germany's punishment. which was to be devided into 4 occupation zones (each controled by US, France, USSR, or G.B.) and the establishment of the United Nations -
Beginning of the fall of communism and the Soviet Union - symbolized the failure of communism and massive socialism -
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City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.