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Japan invades China starting WWII in the Pacific
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WWII begins in Europe with Hitler's invasion of Poland
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Battle of Britain
Air battle waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. Germans purpose was to take England but th British Royal Air Force won. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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US enters the war
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Battle of Midway
The most major battle of the Pacific. US won the victory and many Japanese fleets were destroyed -
Battle of Stalingrad
A decisive war in which Germany and its alies fought the soviet union for the control of the city of Stalingrad. The Russians won and destroyed the German 6th Army. It was a turning pint becuase it halted German expansion to the east -
D-Day invasion of Normandy France
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Battle of the Bulge
The last major offensive of the Germans to retake Belguim. The Allies won the battle. -
Battle of Iwo HJma
A major battle fought in the Pacfic by the US Forces in order to capture the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. The US got the victory. -
V-E day
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Okinawa Fall
US captutred the islands of Okinawa. Later used their airfields to launch the planes that would drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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V-J day
