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holocaust
The first major camp to be directly encountered by Allied troops, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on 23 July 1944. Chełmno was liberated by the Soviets on 20 January 1945. Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on 27 January 1945 Buchenwald by the Americans on 11 April Bergen-Belsen by the British on 15 April Dachau by the Americans on 29 April Ravensbrück by the Soviets on the same day; Mauthausen by the Americans on 5 May and Theresienstad -
carl vinson
He later was primarily responsible for additional naval expansion legislation, the Naval Act of 1938 ("Second Vinson Act") and the Third Vinson Act of 1940, as well as the Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940. The ambitious program called for by this series of laws helped the U.S. Navy as the country entered World War II, as new ships were able to match the latest ships from Japan. -
breakout of world war 2 in europe
The war in Europe concluded with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 -
lend-lease program created
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government -
pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning,was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
savannah shipyard
Located at the confluence of three rivers, the harbor was used as an exportation port for goods such as cotton and rice. Throughout the decades before the war, Brunswick’s harbor was mainly used for trade purposes -
brunswick shipyard
When the Emergency Shipbuilding Program was announced by President Franklin Roosevelt in January of 1941, Brunswick was one of sixteen ports chosen to construct cargo vessels that would aid Allied forces in Europe -
united nations are formed
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations.During the Second World War, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated talks on a successor agency to the League of Nations, and the United Nations.
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bell aircrafts involvment in ww2
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D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline.Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
yalta conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.Yalta was the second of three wartime conferences among the Big Three. -
hitlers death
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successi -
bomb or hiroshima
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. -
bomb of nagasaki
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. killed 29000 people with 2 nukes
