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Japann had conquered Machuria in Chiina by Hideki Tojo.
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Adolf Hitler beat Paul von Hindenburg in the 1933 elections and became dictator of Germany. Hitler was one of the cruelest leaders in history. He killed so many people because of his own assuptions.
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Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
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Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
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Germans invaded Poland at day break. Germans thundered across Poland border at 0445 hours
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Germany invaded France, Belgium and Netherlands.
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Italian forces in Albania invade Greece. Tanks occupied Albania into the mountains of Epirus before dawn.
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The United States President was presented a dilemma when "the bomb" was developed. It was a weapon that would end the war and end the loss of U.S. soldiers. We had already lost so many soldiers during the invasion of Normandy. Nobody wanted to endure another "D-Day" type Of losses. The reality is, there were far fewer lost lives IN JAPAN as a result Of the bomb than were projected would have resulted from an all-out invasion.
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Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan.
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A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the US.
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Manila and U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese.
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the largest Japanese air raid since Pearl Harbor Occurs against Darwin, Australia; Japanese invade Bali.
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Allied POWs [prisoner of war ] with hands tied behind their backs pause during the Bataan Death March. AbOut 76,OOO prisoners including 12,OOO Americans were forced on the 6O mile march under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp in the Philippines.
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was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2 between the Imperial Japanese Navy , United States and Australia. It was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.
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was a battle carrier based on airplanes. The Japanese lost aircraft carriers that they could not replace. The US lost some ships, but not nearly as many as the other side.
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aliied scientist had been workinq on what became an alternative in invadinq japan . The scientist worked to develop an atomic bomb, a weapon that produced qreatt destructivee power by splittinq an atom known as the Manhattan project . This huqee effoRt to develop an atomic bomb employed more than 6OO,OOO people.
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Germany and Italy occupy perviously unoccupied Vichy, France
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Last German forces in Stalingrad surrender
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German troops in North Africa surrender
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Italy declares war on Germany
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US, British and Canadian armes land in Norway operation overload begins
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The United States President was presented a dilemma when "the bomb" was developed. It was a weapon that would end the war and end the loss of U.S. soldiers. We had already lost so many soldiers during the invasion of Normandy. Nobody wanted to endure another "D-Day" type Of losses. The reality is, there were far fewer lost lives IN JAPAN as a result Of the bomb than were projected would have resulted from an all-out invasion.
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An attempt by ranking German officers to kill Hitler fails; the bomb only wounds him.
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The larqest naval battle in history. Between Japanese and mostly U. S. forces in the air, onn thee surfacee, and from beneath the surface of waterss surrounding the Japaaanese-occupied Philippine Islands, which were being invaded by the U. S. Army.
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Roosevelt wins forth presidental term
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German counter attack in the Ardennes in south Belgium.
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A German army group trapped in 'Ruhr Pocket' om Germany surrenders: 325,000 prisoners are taken.
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German forces in Italy surrender unconditionally.
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Adolf Hitler kills himself
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A major U.S. naval disaster, north of Guadalcanal, as eight Japanese warships wage a night attack and sink three U.S. heavy cruisers, an Australian cruiser, and U.S. destroyer, all in less than an hour. Another U.S. cruiser and two destroyers are damaged. Over 1,500 Allied crewmen are lost.
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Formal Japanese surrender ceremony on board the MiSSOURi in Tokyo Bay as 1,000 carrier-based planes fly overhead; President Truman declares VJ Day
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Japanese in Korea surrender.
