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Annexation of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Japanese Internment Camps
During World War II, the United States, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast. in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. -
Island Hopping
Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was an amphibious military strategy by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. The key idea was to bypass heavily fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence en route to a final target. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941 -
The Philippines
The Japanese attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941, came at a time when the U.S. military buildup had hardly begun. Their advance was rapid; before Christmas, Manila was declared an "open city" while Quezon and Osmena were evacuated to MacArthur's headquarters on Corregidor Island." -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4-7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Los Alamos
The Manhattan Project was a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Stalingrad
Stretching about 30 miles (50km) along the banks of the Volga River, Stalingrad was a large industrial city producing armaments and tractors and was an important prize in itself for the invading German army. -
D-day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 during the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overload during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history -
Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference, held 4-11 February 1945 was 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. -
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until he died in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Fuhrer und Reichskanzler in 1934. -
Meeting at potsdam
The Big Three- Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Britsh Prime Minister Winston Churchhill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman- met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima
The uranium bomb detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 had an explosive yield equal to 15,000 tonnes of TNT. It razed and burnt around 70 percent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors. -
Fall of Berlin
It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.