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The Philippines
End Date: May 8, 1942 Japan launched an attack on the Philippines, 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Philippine's defenses continued until the United States-Philippine forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula in April 1942. Source: http://countrystudies.us/philippines/21.htm -
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Battle of Stalingrad
End Date: February 2, 1943 The battle was between Germany and the Soviet Union and it started because German troops tried to take over Stalingrad, to the Germans Stalingrad was one of the most important city. 850,000 Axis soldiers died wounded or went missing and more than a million Soviet soldiers were wounded, missing, or were downed. Sources: https://www.army-technology.com/features/featurethe-20th-centurys-10-deadliest-battles-the-worst-military-disasters-4181684/ -
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D-Day
D-Day started buy the invasion of Normandy where the Allied forces of Britain, Canada, France, and America attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. This term is used in the military planing, which means the actual day a event is to begin. Sources: https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/d-day_invasion_of_normandy.php -
Meeting at Yalta
End Date: February 11, 1945 At this conference it was decided that Germany will be split into 4 zones, and that the Soviet Union will attack Japan, and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Also in this conference Stalin pledged that free election will be held in Poland. Sources: https://study.com/academy/lesson/yalta-conference-definition-significance-results.html -
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Los Alamos
This was a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory was organized during WWII. This Laboratory was design for nuclear weapons which was part of the <Manhattan Project. Sources: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/los-alamos-world-war-ii -
Meeting at Potsdam
End Date: August 2, 1945 The Big 3, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Harry Truman, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin; they met for the end of WWII. Later they met again following the surrender of Germany and determine the postwar borders in Europe. Sources: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/potsdam-conf -
Hiroshima
During WWII a Japanese city of Hiroshima got the world's first deployed atomic bomb, the bomb was dropped by an American B-29 bomber. This explosion cleared out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people, later 10,000 more will day because of the radiation exposure. Source: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
