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Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east.
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Sixteen days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union did so from the east.The invasion ended on 6 October 1939.
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The name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force
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This was Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom. For this to suceed,air support was needed over the English Channel. The operation was postponed to September 17th and never carried out.
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Was a code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR
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Although the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the total lifting took place on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. It was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of casualties.
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The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed and 1,282 were wounded.
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It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States.
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Regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a 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.
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower. The Mission objective wa to protect supply routes between the U.S,Australia, and New Zealand
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Was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II. The Soviet Union wanted the United States and Britain
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The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. Te first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing
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Also known as Operation Shingle, was an amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was sucessful.
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The landings took place along a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword.
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A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel.
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After major defeats in Normandy in July to August 1944, remnants of German forces withdrew across the Low Countries and eastern France towards the German border by the end of August.
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For the Americans, with about 500,000 to 840,000 men[1] committed and some 70,000 to 89,000 casualties, including 19,000 killed, the Battle of the Bulge was the single largest and bloodiest battle that they fought in World War II.
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The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union. the Red Army Breached the German front and moved west about 40 kilometers a day.
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The U.S. invasion was charged with the mission of capturing the three airfields on Iwo Jima. The battle produced some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.
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Japan lost over 100,000 troops, and the Allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945. His wife also commited suicide by drinking 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 gardens outside of 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. German forces surrenderd on the channel islands.
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It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M.
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The term has been applied to both the day on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made in the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945, (when it was announced in the United States, Western Europe, the Americas, the Pacific Islands, and Australia/New Zealand), as well as to September 2, 1945, when the signing of the surrender document occurred.
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Is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū in Japan. Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb attack. 40,000 people were killed.
