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D Day
-Allies attack Germany
-11,000 planes were deployed to destroy German communication
-Allies won and gained a foothold in France -
Attempted Assassination
-A soldier puts a bomb in Hitler's headquarters
-20 people are either killed or wounded, but Hitler escapes -
Invasion of Tokyo
-B-29 bombers destroy nearly 16 square miles of Tokyo
-83,000 Japanese were killed, 100,000 more wounded -
Okinawa Island Hopping
-US wanted to capture Okinawa because it had an important airbase that could be used to invade Japan
-The US finally did capture Okinawa, but not without 50,000 casualties -
Death of Mussolini
-Mussolini tries to flee to Switzerland
-He is caught and executed -
Death of Hitler
Hitler and some of his closest associates commit suicide -
Hiroshima
-The US drops an Atomic Bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
-90,000 to 146,000 killed -
Nagasaki
-US drops another atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
-39,000 to 80,000 people were killed
-Japan then surrendered to the Allies on August 15 1945 -
Battle of the Bulge
-Hitler orders a counter attack on the Allies
-Hitler loses, and the German Army suffers tremendous loss of supplies -
Manhattan Project
-Led by General Leslie Grove and J. Robert Oppenheimer
-development of the Atomic Bomb
-completed on 12/31/1946
