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Name given to air compaign by German air force against the UK. Objective was to gain air over the Royal air force.
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Vichy regime maintained some legal authority however, the laws only applied where it did not contradict german ones. The regime was most powerful in the unoccupied southern free zone.
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Numbers of U-boats were sunk by the Japanese from 1940-1944 the numbers rose quite effeciantly.
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3 Major axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. Triportite pack begin.
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Germany had been attacking US ships. FDR proposed "if you see an enemy you shoot."
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The result on the US entry into WW2
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Rejection was delivered to late when note was delivered the hull knew of the attack before Japan could call for apology.
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Made the U.S a full time fighter in the war against Germany. U.S has enemies at every angle.
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Phillipines, was later accounted as a Japenese war crime. March involved 75,000 American and Philipino prisoners, most of them were severyly physcially abused, or murdered.
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McArthur was awarded he congressional medal of honor.
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Major battle in pacific theatre of WW2 between Japan and U.S.
First fleed action in which aircraft carriers engaged eachother. -
Major WW2 battle where Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union. Often was cited as the turning points of the war.
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Started in the Pacific theatre of WW2 a war on ground, at sea, and in air that was campaigned as the first major offenseive launch twoard the end of WW2.
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American comanders agreed to conduct landings in North western Africa. The goal of this was to clean continent of axis troops.
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During WW2 Sicily was the scene of heavy fighting.The Allies launched an invasion from North African bases.
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Tenth and fourteenth armies whipped on southern approaches to rome. They wanted to defend for their city. Mobds marched all the way down to the corso umbertc.
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D-day was the term used for the day of actual landing during the invasion of normandy, it was dependent on its final approval.
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Suicide attakcs by military aviators diesgned to destroy as many war ships as possible.
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Troops from X-Corps. By 13:30 they made the red beach sector secure enough to allow Gen. McArthur to make a dramatic entrance.
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Initial incursion the germans put into the Allies line of advance. Major german offensive launch twoard the end of WW2
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U.S marines and corpsman raising flag during battle of Iwo Jima. One of the most significant moments in history.
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At the end of WW2 Okinawa was under U.S administration for 27 years,
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Inherited presidency from FDR before the ed of WW2.
Truman was the deicder to use atomic bombs to end war against Japan.Truman was summoned to the white house by Steve Early -
Hitler ends im committing suicide by gunshot and cyonide poisoning.
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Victory over europe day when they finally surrendered from war.
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Six months of fire bombing 67 Japanies cities. After 2-4 months the bombings killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima
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During WW2 it was the last city to be subject to nuclear attack
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Victory over Japan day. Japenese surrender had been made.
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Japan formally surrendered a ceremonie followed right after on battleship of the USS Missouri.