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Battle of Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the struggle between the Allied and German forces for control of the Atlantic Ocean. Allies began using convoys to protect ships.The Germans were very successful in the beginning, but by mid - 1943, the Allies had the upper hand. -
pearl harbor
There were two full blown attacks on Pearl harbor which was on December 7 1941. 2,400 soldiers and civillians died, 1187 people got injured during the attack, 18 ships and 350 planes sunk or damaged. -
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The Battle Of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. Australia stopped Japan from invading. But Japan won the actual battle, the allies were able to stop Japan invasion for the first time. -
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Battle Of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
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Battle Of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. -
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Battle Of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Admiral Chester Nimitz intercepted the Japanese code, then U.S launched a suprise attack on Japan at Pacific Island called Midway. -
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Mahattan Project.
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. Due to the atomic blast in Hirosima and Nagaski, 200,000 Japanese died. In Hirosima, the cities were destroyed and turn into dust. Nagasaki had too many catastrophic damage which were cities were half gone. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War 2 in Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western. Soviet Union.Germany nearly won which was 9/10 of the cities were taken by Germany.Soveit had lsot 1,100,000 people during the battle. -
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Invasion of Normandy
The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II, the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place. D-Day,the date of the initial assaults, was Tuesday 6 June 1944 and Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on that day came from Canada, the Free French Forces, the United Kingdom, and the United States -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
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Battle Of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields (including South Field and Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.[2] This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of -
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Battle Of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. Japan used 1,900 Kamikaze attacks and more than 110,000 japanese soldiers died. Moreover, 7,600-12,500 U.S troops died but they won. -
President Franklin Roosevelt Death.
On April 12th 1945, President franklin Roosevelt passed away. After his tragic death, the U.S.A faced major grieving period. When the president was dead, his most trusted friend, the vice president named Harry S.Truman took over Frankiln's spot as the president of the US. -
The End Of Hitler
Adolf Hitler who was a massive murderer,committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. The soldiers were ordered to burn the bodies so that no one such as the France or British can't see them. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Thus, its a mark the end of World War 2. -
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Potsdam Conference
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenbu. The conference was where the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States discussed about drawing a blueprint to disarm Germany and eliminate the Nazi regime. They decided to divide Germany into four sections and set up the Nuremberg Trials to persecute Nazi leaders. -
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Occupation Of Japan
The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II, led by the United States with support from the British Commonwealth, was Japan's first experience of occupation by a foreign power. It transformed the country into a democracy that recalled 1930s American "New Deal" politics.The occupation, codenamed Operation Blacklist,was ended by the Treaty of San Francisco, signed on September 8, 1951 and effective from April 28, 1952, after which Japan's independence with the exception, until -
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V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan’s surrender was made to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan -
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Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.Over 23 nations tried Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. 12 of the 22 defendants were sentenced to death
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Battle of Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. 120,000 Germans died (also lost 600 tanks and guns and 1,600 planes – leading to defeat))
