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2,500 American bombers blew a hole through the German lines and then sent tanks through the gap.
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Hitler had one last desperate offensive attack and his goal was to cut off Allied supplies from coming through the ports of Antwerp, Belgium.
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60,000 American marines landed in Iwo Jima and the troops got inland and destroyed the Japanese buckers with flamethrower and explosives. 6,800 troops died capturing the island.
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America loaded firebombs on a B-29s and dropped them on Tokyo.
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While he was in Warm Springs,Georgia and he had a stroke and sadly passed away. His vice president, Harry S. Truman, became the president and finished the war.
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America was trying to invade Okinawa because it was 350 miles away from the mainland of Japan and in June 22 1945 it was taken
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Hitler knew the war coming to an end and knew that he couldn't show his face in Germany so he went down to his Berlin bunker and committed suicide.
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Germany accepted the terms for a unconditional surrender and the next day it was proclaimed as "Victory in Europe".
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Physicist J.Robert Oppenheimer led a team and detonated the first atomic bomb in New Mexico
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President Harry S.Truman talked about dropping the bomb on Japan if they didn't surrender to save thousands of American lives and it was for the better if we did that.
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United States,Britain,France and the Soviet Union created the IMT to punish Germany and Japan for war crimes. They were held at Nuremberg Germany