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Annexation of Sudetenland
Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy leaders signed an agreement that let the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland. Hitler had threatened to take the Sudetenland by force.
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Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise. The Japanese wanted to destroy American fleet units. Once Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the U.S went into WW2 and we declared war on Japan. Italy and Germany then declared war on the U.S. The U.S had to fight a 2 front war in Europe and Asia.
https://youtu.be/aYIfGA5QbL0
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The Philippines
The Philippines was attacked by Japan 10 hours after the Pearl Harbor attack. At the time of WW2 The Philippines was part of the United States and it was an important military target.
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Japanese internment camps
Over 60,000 of Japanese American children were in concentration camps in WW2. FDR started Japanese internment camps through the executive order. The U.S reacted to the bomb of Pearl Harbor so they made concentration camps. The U.S took all the Japanese people to prevent them from buying land and return them to their forms.
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Island Hopping
Island Hopping was a strategy used for the United States military. The U.S was able to hop on any island and take control back from the Japanese of that island. The U.S set up military forces and supplies on islands so they could concentrate only on their resources.
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Battle of Midway
The Pacific war revealed a new kind of fighting by using aircraft carriers. The Battle of Midway was the turning point in the war. The U.S broke Japan’s JN-25 code which was the Japanese planned to attack the Midway Islands. When the Battle of Midway, the allies regained islands controlled by Japan.
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Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was the 1st big offensive and a victory for the allies in the pacific. U.S. marines launched a surprise attack August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction while a Japanese troops stationed in the section of the Solomon Islands.
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Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a violent battle between Russian forces and Nazi Germany and the axis powers during WW2. The battle of Stalingrad is known for one of the longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare.
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D- Day
In 1944, the allies decided to open a western front by invading Nazi-occupied France. Operation overload (D-Day) was the largest land and sea attack in history. The Normandy invasion was deadly, but the Allied victory created a western front and allowed the allies to push towards Germany from the west and the soviet army pushed towards the east, forced to fight a two front war.
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Death of Hitler
Hitler committed suicide. He was scared of being taken alive. He doesn’t want to suffer the same humiliation as Mussolini.
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Meeting at Yalta
The Meeting at Yalta was a meeting between the allies of WW2 leaders. FDR for the U.S, Joseph Stalin for the Soviet Union, and Winston Churchill for Britain. They discussed postwar fate after defeating Germany and Europe.
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Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre. The Soviets began bombing Berlin. Hitler realized that they were going to lose the battle so Germany surrendered.
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Los Alamos
Los Alamos scientists exploded a plutonium bomb in New Mexico at a test site on the U.S. Air Force base. Most famous federal government lab.
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Meeting at Potsdam
The meeting at Potsdam was the last meeting for WW2 for the big 3(Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill). The leaders agreed on Germany economy, punishment for war criminals, and land boundaries.
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Hiroshima
In WW2, America dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima in Japan. The explosion killed 80,000 people. Thousands more would later die from the exposure of radiation. A few days later, America dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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