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Longest military campaign in World War 2, lasting from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
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Due to World War 2, the Olympic Games were canceled. They were supposed to be held in Tokyo, Japan.
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The 1940 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-seven series between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Military campaign of WW2, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Airforce.
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Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. The Navy and Marine Corps suffered a total of 2,896 casualties.
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Landmark Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII.
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War 2. This was the largest air, land, and sea invasion in history. The goal was to surprise Germany, but Germany was ready to fight. American, British, and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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The 1945 World Series matched the American League Champion Detroit Tigers against the National League Champion Chicago Cubs. The Tigers won the Series four games to three, giving them their second championship and first since 1935.
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