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Poland was attacked in September of 1939.
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Germany invades Poland because they have mostly German speaking persons. They did this and got away with it because France, Russia, USA, and Great Britain wanted to avoid conflict.
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Denmark was attacked in April of 1940.
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Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese causing them to enter WW2
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Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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The Battle of Okinawa, code-named Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day,
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The American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
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September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
