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Sudetenland was assigned to germany between october 1-10. Then in march of 1939 the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was invaded by Germany. Germany wanted to expand its territory to include the Sudetenland and gain control of key military defences in the area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLGRYiF_ZQ
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the attack on Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th, 1941 when Japanese planes flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs destroying ships, plane landing strips, buildings, ect. Japan suprise attacked America when they bombed Pearl Harbor. They killed many people that day, and they destroyed amost all of America's military ships they had there.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/06/pearl-harbor-what-happened-during-december-7-1941-attack-hawaii/4351786002/ -
This battle was a clash between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Navy. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle that happened June 3rd through 6, 1942, and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island killed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power, and turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HkBW7X7LaU
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The battle of Stalingrad was when Gremany and its allies tried to fight the soviet union for control of Stalingrad. it is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties. Germany had to withdraw a lot of military forces from other places to replace their losses.
https://www.britannica.com/video/180233/Overview-Battle-of-Stalingrad
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the battle of guadalcanal was a military campaign fought between August 7th 1942 and February 9th 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against Japan. The objective was to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzCTvSQ4JY
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The US created the strategy island hopping, it targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the Japanese while hopping over the harder to get islands, cutting off their supply lanes, and leaving them to get weaker. It was basically just trying to get closer to the Japanese to keep them away from america.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBgxW3H_tsI
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Allied forces launched a naval, air, and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Early in the day on 6 June, Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France. Ground troops then landed across five assault beaches - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. It had extreme causlties for the allied forces, but it was a necessary step to take back France.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between three World War II allies including Franklin D. Roosevelt(U.S), Winston Churchill (Britain), and Joseph Stalin(Soviet) between February 4th-11th 1945. They discussed the post-war fate of Germany and the rest of Europe, the terms of Soviet entry into the war against Japan, and the forming and operating the new nations.
https://www.history.com/news/yalta-conference-big-three-wwii-cold-war
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After almost four years of intense fighting, Soviet forces launched their assault on Berlin on April 16th 1945. Germany had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, and killed an estimated 25 million of the country's civilians and military. Berlin was completely surrounded by 23 April.
https://www.britannica.com/video/180245/Soviet-troops-Adolf-Hitler-Berlin-suicide-April-1945
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/soviet-victory-battle-berlin-finished-nazi-germany -
Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30th, 1945 from a self inflicted gunshot wound. He and his wife killed themselves, because the Russians were coming to arrest him. One of the Nazi principles was that death was better than dishonor, which may have prompted Hitler to rather chose suicide than be tried for his crimes against humanity.
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This meeting was held near Berlin from July 17th to August 2nd in 1945. This meeting was between Harry Truman(U.S), Winston Churchill(Britain), and Joseph Stalin(Soviet). the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. they talked on matters like German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
https://www.britannica.com/video/180248/Overview-Potsdam-Conference (only enough for one) -
Hiroshima is a city in Japan that was was a good industrial hub. After Japan's refusal to surrender America bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. There were 66,000 killed and 69,000 injured. Despite this Japan still didn't surrender. -
Japan launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Allied forces landed on the island of Leyte on October 20, 1944, Fighting continued until Japan's formal surrender on September 2, 1945. Most of the 80,000 prisoners of war captured by the Japanese at Bataan were forcedon a death march to a prison camp way farther north. As many as 10,000 men died before they even got there. I don't have space for article or video. -
During WWII President Franklin Roosevelt created the executive order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, the U.S. government said that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. The final one was closed March 30th 1946.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M
https://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/treatment-of-bi-japanese-americans-compared-with-today/ -
Los Alamos is located in New Mexico, and was where the Manhattan Project took place. The Manhattan project was the code name for the plan to make an atomic bomb to drop on Japan. The bomb was tested and made there. The project was completed on December 31, 1946.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/distance-learning/k-12-distance-learning/electronic-field-trips/manhattan-project
https://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp