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German Invasion of Portland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. German ivated portland to regain lost territory and ultimately rule their neighbor to the east. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital.The Germans wanted the British government to ignore the Treaty of London and let the German army pass through Belgium. click here -
Fall of France
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Attack on the Soviet Union
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union, which was code-named Operation Barbarossa, on June 22, 1941, deliberately breaking the nonaggression pact that the two countries had signed two years before. This would involve expelling the supposedly inferior “races” of Slavs and Jews who lived there and settling ethnic Germans in their place.click here -
Doolittle's raid on Japan
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. click here -
Surrender Of Corregidor And The Philippines
On May 6, 1942, U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese. The island of Corregidor remained the last Allied stronghold in the Philippines after the Japanese victory at Bataan.
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Battle of midway
The Midway was a big battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942 six months after Japan attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Battle of Atlantic
The battle of Atlantic was all about the. German submarines and how they sunk the American cargo ships and oil tanker so the Americans had to up there game to be batter then the German. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
This 7 month battle took place in Solomon Islands in the Pacific. The Americans wanted to take the Japanese air base and the Japanese lost two -thirds of their 31,400 army . -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They came up with strategic plans to take down the Germany, Japan, Italy.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks.200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines. -
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Battle of Okinawa
In Okinawa Island there was a battle in the Pacific the War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Surrender of Germany
German Instrument of Surrender was the legal document that effected the extinction of the Nazi Germany and they ended world war II in Europe. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city in 1945. the explosion killed 80,000 people in Japanese city of Hiroshima. the 2nd bomb killed 40,000 people in Nagasaki. clicker here
