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The Battle of Britain was the name given to the air campaign by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.
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Germany had been attacking US ships.
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Gave Japan a better chance at controlling the Pacific.
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Over 4.5 million troops of the axis powers invaded the USSR along a 1,800 mile front.
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A military strike by the Japenese navy against the US naval base.
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Spoke with FDR
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Promises to return to the Philippines while retreating from the Japenese.
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Took place in the Philippines and was later a Japenese war crime.
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This was a major naval battle in the Pacific during WWII between the Japenese Navy and allied naval air forces from the US and Australia. This battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged eachother.
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Most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of WWII
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The battle of Guadalcanal was fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal.
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Metropolitan France was divided into a German occupational zone.
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Surrender of German VI armed forces.
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The allies took Silicy from the axis.
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The allied forces captured their first Axis capital, Rome.
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Also known as Normandy Landings were the operations of the allied invasion of Normandy during WWII
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US General Douglas MacArthur kept the promise he made 2 and a half years earlier to the people of the Philippines. He returned to the islands with an invasion force.
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The first mass kamikaze.
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The last major German offensive of the war.
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Marines raised the American flag at the summit of Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima.
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Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa. This battle lasted 82 days.
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33rd president.
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The cause of death is suicide by a gunshot wound to the head and cyanide poisoning.
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The date when the WWII allies accepted the surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Another effort to end the war.
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Another effort by the United States to end the war, Japan would not accept.
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The ending of WWII. The surrending of Japan also occurred on this day as well.
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Japan surrenders after the bombing of Nagasaki.
