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Germany invades Poland and then war is declared.
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Germany attacks the Soviet Union.
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Japan attacks the naval base of Pearl Harbor on this day.
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American bombers attacked Tokyo; it was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
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British–American invasion of French North Africa in World War II
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The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in February 1945. The capture of Iwo Jima was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East..
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Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved 287000 U.S. Army troops against 130000 Japanese soldiers.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide and kills himself.
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This is the day that the Germans surrendered to the French ending WWII.
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The First successful test of an Atomic Bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, U.S., thereby ushering in the "Atomic Age".
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Japanese submarine I-58 torpedoed and sank the ship in approximetely 12 minutes.
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
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The soviets joined the war to help battle off Japan.
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Emporer Hirochito surrenders over the radio after the atomic bomb.
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Japan surrenders to the US after the bombing of Hiroshima.
