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name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party. Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II.Decisive Axis and Soviet victory. Beginning of World War II. Polish territory divided between Germany, the USSR, Lithuania and Slovakia
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German invasion of France and the Low Countries. france thought they were invading through luxembourg but they actually invaded through low countries. axis wins.
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german airforce against the u.k. durring the summer and fall of 1940. germany failed to destroy britain airforce. no one wins. germany doesnt achieve goal.
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Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during World War II, beginning in 1940. this never happened.
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germany invades soviet union. 4.5 million axis troops invade. germans win.
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statement agreed between Britain and the United States of America. It was intended as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II, and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world.It was drafted at the Atlantic Conference (codenamed Riviera) by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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military operation by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces to capture Leningrad in the Eastern Front theatre
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surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. 4 us battleships were sunk
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between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. Japanese tactical victory. Allied strategic victory.
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most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy
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major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. The battle's outcome was disastrous for Germany, making its victory in the East impossible. The battle marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.
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part of the Allied strategic plan to protect the convoy routes between the US, Australia and New Zealand.Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. allies win.
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British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign. america is succesful.
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a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.The 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps.
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Allied landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. US gets stuck on the beaches and couldnt go anywere.
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Allied invasion of Normandy. 160000 allies land on normandy. allies win war.
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Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation of all time. allies failed.
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a major German offensive.launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes Mountains region in Belgium. Allied victory.
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final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II. Decisive Soviet victory; Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, dissolution of Nazi Germany.
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a battle in which the United States fought for and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. The U.S. invasion was charged with the mission of capturing the three airfields on Iwo Jima.
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largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War. The battle resulted in one of the highest number of American casualties of any World War II engagement. Japan lost over 100,000 troops, and the Allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties. ally victory
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot. he killed himself in Fuhrerbunker in Berlin.
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committed suicide with him by ingesting poison. In accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs to ground level and through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.
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the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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australia us and netherlands against empire of japan. The landing had been preceded by heavy bombing and shelling by Australian and US air and naval forces. The Japanese were outnumbered and out gunned. allies win.
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only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war. The target of Hiroshima was a city of considerable military importance, containing Japan's Second Army Headquarters, as well as being a communications center and storage depot.
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Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.