WWII Project Assignment by Victoria Hazelrig https://padlet.com/1047794/fe1qk0h2xnfzlikb Victoria Hazelrig en-us 2023-02-28 18:30:32 UTC 2026-03-04 10:53:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. Annexation of Sudetenland 1047794 https://padlet.com/1047794/fe1qk0h2xnfzlikb/wish/2498433039 March 15, 1939 - March 16, 1939 
Sudetenland was a part of Czechoslovakia bordering Austria and Germany with ethnic German majority. Germany wanted to annex Sudetenland because one of Hitler's major policy goals was to unite all German-majority areas with Nazi Germany 
Article: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sudetenland 
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base in Hawaii, that Japan pulled a surprise attack on, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. After the attack, the U.S. declared war on Japan, which caused Germany and Italy to declare war on the U.S..
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A major battle between German and Soviet troops in
World War II.
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The Battle of Berlin, also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final chapter in the destruction of Hitler's Third Reich. Took place in the European Theatre. The battle was primarily fought between the German Army and the Soviet Army. 
Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin 
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D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord, took place in Normandy, France. The objective of D-Day was to liberate France. Allied code names for the beaches along the 50- mile stretch of Normandy, France coast targeted for landing were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. 
Article: https://www.army.mil/d-day/history.html
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First Allied land invasion of Japanese held territory. This is the first piece of territory that the Allies took back from Japan.
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The Philippines Campaign sought to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during WWII. When Japan officially surrendered in WWII, Japanese occupation in the Philippines finally ended.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. He shot himself and his wife, Eva, in the head. 
Article: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-adolf-hitler
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During WWII, and American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. Nagasaki, Japan was then later attacked. Hiroshima's atomic bomb's name was "Little Boy", and Nagasaki's atomic bomb's name was "Fat Man". It's estimated that roughly 70,000 to 135,000 people died in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people died in Nagasaki. 
Article:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
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Also known as the Yalta Conference, and codenamed Argonaut, the meeting at Yalta took place near Yalta in Crimea. The point of the meeting was to discuss the postwar reorganization of Europe, specifically Germany. 
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference 
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The Big Three- Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman -met in Potsdam, Germany to determine terms for the end of the war. They confirmed plans regarding Germany's weapons and military. They added supervision, from the Allied countries, for Germany. 
Article: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf 
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The Battle of Midway took place in the Pacific Theater. Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace. 
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway 
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The Manhattan Project was located in Los Alamos. Here, the first atomic bomb ever was invented, and tested. 
Article: https://www.lanl.gov/ 
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Japanese internment camps were established during WWII by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. Many people of Japanese descent were taken into these camps, and were forced to endure horrible, insufferable
 living conditions.   
Article: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation 
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Article:https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/pacific-strategy-1941-1944
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