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Sudetenland was desired by Germany because of its territory and the majority of it's population was 'ethnically' German. -
Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at the naval base. They killed around 2,403 men. -
Skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance. -
The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. -
The United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Allied forces landed on a small island in the Solomon Islands: Guadalcanal. It would take six long months of grueling battle before they would wrest control of the island from the enemy. -
Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river. -
Once Japan occupied the Philippines, they technically granted them independence from the United States in 1943. -
Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord'. -
The development and testing of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. -
Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan. -
Hitler commited suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Germany crumbles. -
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II -
The U.S. Dropped a bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. It killed a lot of people.v -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification.