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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-German, which had placed them under Czechoslovak rule in 1919—responded with increasing approval to the German nationalist, anti-Czech, anti-Semitic propaganda disseminated by the Sudeten German (or Nazi) Party during the mid-1930s-. Link text -
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. [Link text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by the Empire of Japan on 8 December 1941, nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. [Link text]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Philippines_during_World_War_II -
the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast. [Link text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation -
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. [Link text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway -
The Battle of Guadalcanal and code named Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943. [Link text]https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-guadalcanal -
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. [Link Text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad -
Island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. [Link text]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging_(strategy) -
Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. [Link text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
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. [Link text]https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-conf -
The Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theater of World War II. [Link text]http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/berlin.htm -
He committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. [Link text]https://www.history.com/news/hitler-death-cause-teeth-analysis -
On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. [Link text]https://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/ -
The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. [Link text]https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/potsdam-conference -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. [Link text]https://www.history.com/news/hiroshima-nagasaki-second-atomic-bomb-japan-surrender-wwii