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1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action but Britain and France were not convinced
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Under the codename Operation barbarossa Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of WWII.
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In the spring of 1941 hundreds of thousands of whites were employed in industries mobilizing for the possible entry of the United States into World War II black labor leader A. Philip Randolph threatened a mass march on Washington unless blacks were hired equally for those jobs.
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President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress and his countrymen less than a month after Pearl Harbor. It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes a few more tanks a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies he said. We must out produce them overwhelmingly so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.
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President Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942 ordering the relocation of all Americans of Japanese.
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On November 8, 1942, the military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa in particular the French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco.
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Codenamed operation overlord the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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The siege of Leningrad also known as the 900th Day Siege though it lasted a grueling 872 days resulted in the deaths of some one million of the city's civilians and Red Army defenders.
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The Japanese sought to converge three naval forces on Leyte Gulf and successfully diverted the U.S. Third Fleet with a decoy.
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U.S takes Iwo Jima from Japan
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Roosevelt dies and Harry S. Turman takes over as our 33rd president
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It is when germany finaly surrenderd to the soviets and freed all the jews that was being held as slaves and workers.
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