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Adolf Hitler Czechoslovakia had a meeting which discussed the release of Sudetenland back to Germany. Sudetenland was a piece of land taken away from Germany after their defeat in WW1.
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This is where people researched and created the atomic bomb which was then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was also close to the test drop area.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during WW1 to cripple the navy fleet. This event caused us to join the war.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor) -
Japan attacked the Philippines a few hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan took control of the islands until the allies liberated them again in 1944.
(https://www.history.com/news/filipino-americans-veterans-day) -
Germany attacked Stalingrad and betrayed a treaty between the two countries. Germany retreated due to the harsh weather and the determination of the people. This caused Russia to join the Allied powers and turned the tides of war.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad) -
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor people became paranoid in the U.S.A. and the government basically rounded up all of the people with Japanese descent and sent them to internment camps just in case one of them were spies. It was basically the result of mass hysteria.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation) -
This basically targeted key islands to pick off and cut off trade and such things.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/exhibits/road-tokyo/island-hopping -
Battle between U.S. Navy and Japans Navy six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was located on Midway Island in defense of a U.S. naval base. It turned the tide in the pacific war.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway) -
Allied victory. Battle that happened on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the pacific.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal) -
The day the Allies invaded Normandy. They invaded the five main beaches to push back the German forces.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day) -
Meeting between the big three allied powers, USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. They discussed the fate of post war Germany and the rest of Europe, how to enter the Soviet Union in the war in the Pacific, and the creation and work of the new United Nations
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference) -
The last major battle in the war. It resulted in the defeat of Hitler and the surrender of the German army.
(https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-battle-of-berlin-2361466) -
Adolf Hitler committed suicide once he lost the war.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/death-of-hitler-video) -
Last of WW2 meeting with the "big three", which was the three main allied powers, and talked about the punishment of war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. They all came to several agreements, which also included the "unconditional surrender" of Japan. They allowed Japan to keep their emperor.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference) -
The USA dropped the one of the first and one of the only atomic bombs on a city in Japan. This helped to end the war because it caused Japan to surrender. It completely whipped out the city of Hiroshima.
(https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki)
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