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German forces inaved Poland from the north, south, and west.
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Germans swept through Holland and Luxembourg. They had two operations, Fall Gelb and Fall Rot.
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The first major campaign to be fought by air forces and the largest and most aerial bombing campaign
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Germanys plan to invade the United Kingdom. The Sea Lion was postponed September 17, 1940 and never carried out.
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The Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union.Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation in history.
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Soviet victory. This was one of the longest and most destructive battles in World War II.
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The Empire of Japan attacked Peral Harbor causing the United States to enter World War ll. Japan wanted an imperial expansion, so they thought destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleetwould make that possible.
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Hitler had just recently bombed Pearl Harbor. He then declared war on the United States because he thought he could capture Japan before the U.S. could.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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This battle was between the Japanese and the United States & Australia.
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Japan's plan was to lure U.S. aircraft carriers into a trap and keep them.
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Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad.
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The British American invasion of the French North Africa.President Franklin D. Rooselvelt thought that the African operation would rule out the invasion of Europe in 1943.
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series of naval battles.
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There were numerous strategic bombing missions.
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This was the first offensive in the central Pacigic Region.
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Fought in the Netherlands and Germany, This was the largest airborne operation of all time.
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This was the largest invasion in history. The Germans didn't have any idea this was coming.
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The Germans attacked American forces, known as the Ardenes Offensive.
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This was a Soviet victory. This was the bloodiest battle in history,
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U.S. captured Iwo Jima from Japan.
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This was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War and was 82 days long.
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Hitler shot himself. His wife also commited suicide the same night. Just hours before he commited suicide, he was told by a General that the Berlin garrison would most likely be running out of amunission.
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Allies accepted the surrender of the armed forces of Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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Nagasaki was bombed. It was one of the largest sea ports in southern Japan.
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Victory over Japan Day.
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Germans released a 9,700lb. uranium bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.
