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Germany finally begins invading Poland,world war 2 breaks out in Europe.
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Germany begins the invasion of France.
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Nazi Germany's invasion of the soviet union in world war 2.
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Japanese forces attack the american naval base on the island of Hawaii,a critical position to have to control the pacific.Sends the US into world war 2.
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A naval battle six months after pearl harbor in the pacific.One of the first major victories for the US in the pacific.Also was considered the payback for Pearl Harbor
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A major battle on the eastern front of Europe. Where the soviet union and Germans fought for 5 months over control of the southern city of Stalingrad.
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The allies amphibious invasion of the Italian mainland.In the Italian campaign of world war 2.
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Allied invasion of Normandy in operation overload,it resulted in the liberation of allied Europe from Nazi Germany.
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The final major German offensive of world war 2,it took place in the Ardness forest region of Belgium.
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The Soviet army liberated the concentration of Auschwitz.The largest concentration and killing camp in WW2.
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A major battle in the pacific,when US marines captured the island of Iwo Jima from the japanese. One of the biggest victories in the pacific
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A series of battles on the Japanese Ryukyu islands.The main central battle took place on the island of Okinawa
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A public "holiday" in Europe when Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered.
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the first ever deployed atomic bomb in world history was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima was dropped by the US in the final days of world war 2.
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The second atomic bomb ever used.Is dropped on the japanese city of nagasaki by the US. Japanese finally surrender.
