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The German occupation of Czechoslovakia from October 1, 1938 to October 10, 1938. A portion of this country was annexed and other parts became the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Article: https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/life-in-nazi-occupied-europe/foreign-policy-and-the-road-to-war/occupation-of-the-sudetenland/
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A Japanese attack on the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941; an early Sunday morning. This was an act of aggression by the Japanese and a desire for America to join the war, which we did. Article: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearl-harbor-bombed
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A technique used by the Pacific Theatre to take over the islands near Japan. Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944
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Just ten hours after Japan attacked us at Pearl Harbor, they attacked the Philippines. We formed a campaign with the Filipinos to defeat Japan led by General Douglas MacArthur. Article: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-empire-of-japan-the-invasion-of-the-philippines-in-ww2.html
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FDR's Executive Order 9066 passed on February 19, 1942 declared that all Japanese Americans would be placed on Internment Camps which was basically designed to remove them. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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Battle in the islands near Japan from June 4 to June 7, 1942, where we stopped the Japanese from advancing any farther and turned them around. We took back the islands they had hopped making this the turning point of the war in the Pacific Theatre. Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-midway
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A military campaign fought from August 7, 1942 - February 9, 1943 in the Pacific Theatre of WWII. This was the first major land offensive made by the Allies against Japan that resulted in an Allie victory. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal
Video: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us/notes-museum/distance-learning-battle-guadalcanal -
Battle at Stalingrad, Germany from August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943 in which its allies fought the Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
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The day the US stormed the beach at Normandy, France which was occupied by the Germans at the time. This resulted in an Allie victory but it was brutal. This is still the largest seaborne invasion in history. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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Post-WWII meeting with British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, Leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, and President of the US, Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss reorganization. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
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A battle in Berlin, Germany from Apr 16, 1945 – May 2, 1945, remembered as the last major offensive of the European Theatre. It's from this battle that we get the Berlin wall that separated East Germany from West Germany. This wall was destroyed and the Soviet Union fought until Germany fell. Not long after the battle ended, Germany declared their surrender and VE Day began. Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52572544
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The testing place for the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. This operation was secretly titled the Manhattan Project. Article: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm
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Conference held in Potsdam, Germany from July 17 to August 2 of 1945 between Churchill, Stalin, and Truman in which Truman informed Stalin we had detonated the first atomic bomb on July 16. Article: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf
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The first of two locations in Japan where we dropped the atomic bomb, the other was Nagasaki. In total, this resulted in a couple hundred thousand civilian deaths. Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
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Some believe Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, actually did commit suicide, while others think he set up to look that way. Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/30/hitler-suicide-bunker-eva-braun/
Video: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/adolf-hilter-death-suicide-anniversary-nazi-germany-world-war-2-eva-braun-history-a9488061.html