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Germany uses blitzkrieg,in other words lightning war, to dominate Poland
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Soldiers are trapped at Dunkirk. hundreds of ships and boats rescue the trapped soldiers.
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Germany bombs Britain. Britain has radar, to seek German planes.
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The Battle of Crete was fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. It began when Nazi Germany began an airborne invasion of Crete.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Japanese aircraft bomb the fleet of American warships.
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Raised moral. Damage was negligible
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Takes place between carrier based aircraft. Americans lose more ships
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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
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces, was a military.
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Conquered sicily and moved to the mainland
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Cassino had to be captured by the Allies in order to gain access to the Liri Valley, the so-called 'gateway to Rome.'
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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In Europe Allied air forces operating from airfields in Holland, Belgium and northern France are surprised by a sudden attack by more than 800 diverse aircraft which the Luftwaffe has assembled from all possible locations, despite their loss of 50 many in recent weeks.
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The world's first atomic bomb (Uranium), Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber piloted by Colonel Tibbets of the 509th Composite Group, the first military unit in the history to drop a nuclear bomb in combat.
