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The annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany was, to a large degree, prepared by the Sudeten Germans, who—after accepting with great reluctance the Treaty of Saint-Germain, which had placed them under Czechoslovak rule in 1919https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-german-annexation-of-sudetenland.htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honoluluhttps://www.archives.gov/news/topics/remembering-pearl-harborhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Pearl-Harbor-attack -
employed by allies in the pacific in order to bypass heavily militarized zones rather than take over every island.https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/educational-travel/victory-pacific/spring-2022https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-kwajalein -
from 1942 to 1945 FDR held japanese in internment camps isolaating and incarcerating them for their racehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZTioTkHcB0https://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp -
The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-au50GxIXwhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Midway -
series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific.https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/life-guadalcanal -
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The battle was marked by fierce close-quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians in air raids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkELWFqGKQ -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/d-day -
also known as the Battle of the Philippines or the Fall of the Philippines, was from December 8, 1941, to May 8, 1942, the invasion of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense of the islands by United States and the Philippine Armies during World War II.https://www.nationalww2museum.org/events-programs/educational-travel/world-war-ii-philippines/February%202022 -
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and codenamed Argonaut, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.https://www.c-span.org/video/?468623-1/united-newsreel-yalta-conferencehttps://www.britannica.com/event/Yalta-Conference -
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCiHGcJzFghttps://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Hitler facing death gave his wife rat poison and then killed himself resulting in his tragic death in a bunker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p92hZ1ye8Ahttps://www.ushistory.org/us/51c.asp -
site where they tested the bombs for ww2 in the los alamos desert located in new mexicohttps://www.atomicheritage.org/location/los-alamos-nmhttps://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-manhattan-project -
In addition to settling matters related to Germany and Poland, the Potsdam negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies.https://www.britannica.com/video/180248/Overview-Potsdam-Conferencehttps://www.ushistory.org/us/51g.asp -
The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, the first atomic bomb was dropped on august 6th over Hiroshimahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv4VhZy2L5Yhttps://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
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