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Attack of Pearl Harbor
The japanese attacked the ships of Pearl Harbor. -
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World War II
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Mass murder of Jews
The mass murder of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz begins. In July, Nazis begin deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to concentration camps. By September, only 60,000 Jews remain in the ghetto. -
Germany's first surrender
German forces surrender at Stalingrad — the first major defeat of a German army since the war began. -
Jews resist going to concentration camps
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto resist their deportation to concentration camps. Hitler’s Waffen-SS attacks on Passover, but resistance continues for a month. -
German's evacuate Sicily
US begins daylight bombing raids on German cities, demonstrating Allied air superiority. -
Germany loses Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, so named because of the westward bulging shape of the battleground on a map, lasted from mid-December 1944 to the end of January 1945. -
D-Day
The United States stormed the beaches of Normandy France. -
First concentration camp was liberated.
The first concentration camp is liberated, by Soviet troops in Majdanek, Poland. US troops break out of Normandy and advance across France. -
Battle of the bulge.
US forces push the German army back into Germany, winning the Battle of the Bulge. Soviet troops capture Warsaw and liberate Auschwitz. -
The Germans begin their last offensive of the war, to defend oil fields in Hungary.Soviet troops capture Danzig in eastern Germany.
The Germans begin their last offensive of the war, to defend oil fields in Hungary. Soviet troops capture Danzig in eastern Germany. -
Hitler's suicide
Allied forces advance through northern Italy, capturing Venice. Mussolini is captured by Italian troops fighting with the Allies and is hanged. Soviet troops capture Berlin.
U.S. forces liberate concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Adolf Hitler commits suicide on April 30. -
Bombing of Japan
For six months, the United States had made use of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities. Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration -
Dropping of Little Boy
Little Boy was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshimaby the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces.[2] It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. -
Drop of Fat Man on Japan
Fat Man is the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date, and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. -
Japanese surrenders
Japan surrenders to America.