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Germany's Invasion of Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. Adolf Hitler wanted to regain lost territory and gain rule Poland. Poland had 1 million soldiers. Polish forces were very under-equipped and tried to take the Germans head-on in a forward concentration, rather than falling back to more normal defensive positions. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-poland -
German Blitzkrieg
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Fall of Paris
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Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
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Wannsee Conference
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway
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Operation Gomorrah
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Allied Invasion of Italy
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
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Operation Thunderclap
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Okinawa
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VE Day
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Potsdam Declaration
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
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VJ Day
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Battle of the Bulge