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Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace.
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Allied Forces invade France.
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From fear of the Allied forces Germany Surrendered.
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President Roosevelt died of a Cerebral Hemorrhage.
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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America dropped their second bomb.
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Cold War started between Soviet Union and America, but full combat never occurred because of fear of atomic power
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After WW II intended to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war.
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One of the first major ¨battles¨ of the Cold War, The Soviet Union blocks the land routes that lead into West Berlin.
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NATO was creating between countries for security.