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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing
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blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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German forces bombard Poland on land from the air as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. The German invasion on Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war what would become the blitzkrieg strategy.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea
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It was code-named Operation Neptune, presumably because it involved a water landing by the Allies on the beaches of Normandy, France. It is the largest military operation by sea in history
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Germans launch the last major offensive of the war Operation Mist also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
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codenamed Operation Iceberg was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
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VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II and ending the war.
