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The act provided that not more than 900,00 men were to be in training at any one time, and it limited service to 12 months
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Germany began its assault on western Europe by invading the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg), which had taken neutral positions in the war, as well as France.
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The Germans and their allies invaded the Soviet Union.
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Where planes and small submarines attacked pearl harbor. There were two waves of attack, the first one was at 7:51 am. & the second one was at 8: 30. Overall, nine ships of the U.S. fleet were sunk and 21 ships were severely damaged. Three of the 21 would be irreparable. The overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured.
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This was the date where the US declared war on the Japanese because they attacked Pearl harbor.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The Germans launched an unsuccessful counterattack in Belgium and northern France, known as the Battle of the Bulge.
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A theater of war usually includes several theaters of operations. For example, in modern Western military literature, Northern European, Central European, and Southern European theaters of operations are usually distinguished within the European theater of war
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The war in the Pacific ended soon after the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 120,000 civilians.
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New legislation in 1948 reduced the mandatory registration age range to between eighteen and twenty-six.
