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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the making and research of the first nuclear weapons.The United States, Canada, and United Kingdom all helped with this project. The project started because Albert Einstein reported that Germany's scientists had been working on nuclear weapons. These three countries wanted to be prepared. -
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Unconditional Surrender
Unconditional surrender was not an event, it was an action. This is why the dates are just when Japan entered and left the war. Unconditional surrender was the concept that Japan soldiers could not surrender no matter the cost. The either fought and won or fought and died. -
The Start of World War 2
The starting place of World War 2 was when Hitler and Germany invaded Poland. A few days later on September 3, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany. This began World War 2. -
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a collection of 40 Nazi concentration camps in Poland. This is the most well known camp of the Holocaust. -
Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise attack from Japan on the Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. They attacked battleships and the entire naval base. This is what got the United States into World War 2. -
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Operation Husky
The Allied troops took over the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. -
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Operation Fortitude
Operation Fortitude was a deception plan. It was a plan to make Germany believe that the Allied Forces would land in Pas-de-Calais, near France and England, or Norway. -
D-Day
Operation Overlord, most known now as D-Day was when the Allied troops swarmed the beaches of Normandy. This operation helped set up the success of the invasion of German controlled Western Europe. -
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Battle Of The Bulge
The Battle Of The Bulge was the final big attack German made on the Western Front. Germany was trying to push the Allied front line west from the northern France to northwestern Belgium. -
The Final Solution
Also best known as the holocaust, the final solution was a genocide of millions of Jewish people. These people were starved and worked and killed and treated like less than nothing. Although there is no specific date to confirm the start of the Holocaust, it is believed to be around 1933. It was run mainly by Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Luitpold Himmler and many other German people of power. -
Attack of Hiroshima
The attack on Hiroshima was the first of two bombs the United States dropped on Japan in the span of 3 days. The bomb dropped on this date was known as little boy. -
Attack Of Nagasaki
The attack on Nagasaki was when the United States dropped the bomb called "Fat Man". It was one of the two nuclear bombs used in the history of warfare.
