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Germany Invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet
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Germany invades France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. (notes). -
Battle of Britain.
Where the German air force continuously bombed Britain for 11 months. Britain kept fighting the bombing and soon the German forces gave up and left.
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Lend Lease Act
The United States gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.
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Germany Invades Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe. (notes) -
Operation Barbarossa
When Germany Invaded Soviet union. Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
While Japan is expanding they come to the conclusion that the U.S. is in their way to they decide to bomb them. The U.S. was seriously hurt was able to recover and able to fight back in the war
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Germany Declares war on the U.S.
Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. Most of them died
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Battle of Midway
The United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway. This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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D-Day
The U.S. Troops stormed the beach of Normandy. Over one hundred and fifty thousand troops made it safely to the beach. thousands were either killed or injured.
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Liberation Of Concentration Camps
The German regime had constructed the six sites containing gas chambers and large crematoria, with the genocidal purpose of annihilating Europe's Jewish population in what they called the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question'. Of the estimated six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, well over three million perished in these six camps.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
From April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
