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The Nazi German Army began it's military occupation of Czechoslovakia with the annexation of Sudetenland. Germany claimed much of Czechoslovakia people were ethically German. -
A surprise military attack on the US pacific fleet in Hawaii. The US military was wounded but not destroyed. FDR plead to congress for them to declare war and they agreed. -
The battle of the Philippines ended in American defeat. It's known to be the Worst military defeat in US history -
These camps were opened in California out of fear of Japanese spies. An executive order placed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in camps.
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The Japanese imitated the battle but the Allied came out Victories. This was a tipping point in the Pacific theater and led a the shrinking of the Japanese empire. -
This ended Japan's advancements in the Pacific theater and placed the allies at a position of advantage. It also aided in boosting the moral of Allied soldiers -
This battle was on the Eastern Front of WW2. It began by Nazi Germany and their allies got in a struggle over the Soviet City, Stanlingrad -
This was a military used in WW2. It was a tactic to seize smaller islands first and then take over heavily fortified ones. -
This is when Allied Powers began to liberate France from Axis rule. The concentration camps began to be freed -
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussed and decided how Europe and specifically Germany would be reconstructed after the end of WW2. -
Adolf Hilter along with his wife and a couple top officials committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. They knew the Nazis would be defeated and did not wish to see their "kingdom" fall. -
This is where the Manhattan Project, testing of the atomic bomb, took place. It is located in New Mexico. This is also where the first atomic bomb was detonated. -
This meeting decided that Germany's military would be completely dismantled. -
The bomb little boy was dropped on Hiroshima. It devastated and nearly leveled the city. The dropping of the atomic bombs are what forced Japan to surrender. -
The wall separating East and West Berlin started to be deconstructed and this marked the end of the Iron Curtain