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The Sudetenland was a province in Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted to get to take over the rest of the country. So the European leader let Hitler take the province in an act of appeasement.
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A US naval base near Honolulu was surprised attacked by Japan before 8 a.m. on Sunday. Hundreds of Japanese planes attacked and destroyed 20 naval ships and over 300 airplanes. The attack killed 2,400 Us Troops including 68 civilians.
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This was a strategy used by the Japanese and Americans to take and take back islands in the Pacific, Guam, Philippines, Wake Islands, and many more. After the bombing of pearl harbor, the Japanese thought that it would take the Americans a long time to bring back their naval force to stop them.
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These camps were established under President Franklin Roosevelt's administration, called Executive Order 9066. After the bombing of pearl harbor, he enforced this and sent 117,000 Asian Americans to these camps, most of which were citizens. Canada and Mexico followed suit with this sending 23,000 people to our or their own camps.
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The battle of Midway was between the Us and Japan where they fought off this island to make sure the Japanese didn't get and control an island close to pearl harbor or even the west coast. In the fight, both the Naval and Air force were used to take the island. The Us lost 300 to the 3000 japan lost.
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Us troops landed on the island on Guadalcanal and the surrounding island to take it back from the Japanese. The Us took control of an under-construction airbase and then funneled troops to the island to make the Japanese retreat.
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Germany attacked The city of Stalingrad it was the bloodiest battle in WWII with over 2 million casualties. The Germans Captured the city then the Soviets encircled Germany and Hitler wanted to stay and destroy the encirclement from the outside he sent supplies through the sky to the troops in the city.
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It was the biggest land invasion in WW2 on the beach of Normandy The Germans were unprepared and this led to the recapture of France and later the battle on the bugle and end the war in Europe. The casualties were little under 5000.
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This Meeting got the big three allied leaders together to talk about the future of Europe. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
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The was a two-prong assault of Germany from the axis powers. This ended Because on May 2 Berlin surrendered after Adolf Hitler killed himself and many high-ranking officials died.
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Hitler committed suicide in the Fuhrerbunker after he was forced to berlin and being push by both sides on the two-front war. Soon after Germany surrendered and WW2 in Europe was over.
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The People of The Philippines governed by The Us was attacked and took control of the major island. the Philippines. Later In august 15 1945, the island was freed by the American troops. During this time the POW about 75000 was forced to walk off the Bataan Death March during 1942.
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This was an area in New Mexico where the US government was going to research, test, and examine the effects of a nuclear bomb. The bomb was named Trinity and it was the first nuclear test.
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This was a post-war conference that talked about the future of Germany, with the Big three allied powers in the US, Great Britain, Soviet Union. They decided to split Germany and Berlin to the power of the USSR and Western power controlled countries
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This was the first city targeted by the new atomic bomb causing upward of 146,000 civilians and soldiers to die. This was 3 days before the war ended.
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