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United States join WWII.
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"Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,'" British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wired President Roosevelt two days after the Pearl Harbor attack, "would it not be wise for us to have another conference...and the sooner the better." Roosevelt responded with an invitation for Churchill to come at one. So began a remarkable alliance between the two nations.
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Prime Minister Churchill arrived at the White House and spent the next three weeks working on war plans with President Roosevelt.
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The first four months of 1942, Germany sank 87 ships off the Atlantic shore. Seven months into the year, Germany destroyed a total of 681 Allied ships. The Allies responded by organizing their cargo ships into convoys. The convoys were escorted by destroyers and airplanes. This allowed them to find and destroy German's U boats faster than they could build them. By the winter of 1943, the Allies began to see many victories.
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Lieutenant Doolittle led 16 bombers in an attack on Tokyo.
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The main Allied powers succeeded in stropping the Japanese drive toward Australia in the five-day battle of the Coral Sea.
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Admiral Chester Nimitz discovers and defends the island of Midway against the Japanese. This was a turning point in the Pacific Way. They began island hopping at this point.
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Germany confidently approached Stalingrad with intentions of conquering. When winter came, the Soviet Union saw this as a perfect opportunity for a powerful counter attack. Germany surrendered Jan 31 of 1943.
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Churchill and Roosevelt sent 107,000 Allied troops to North Africa for an invasion of Axis-controlled area. It was commanded by Dwight D. Eisenhower. The last of the Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943.
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Churchill, Roosevelt, and their commanders met in Casablance to discuss strategies of where to strike next, and they agreed to only accept the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. We captured Siciliy in 1943. The Italian dictator resigned and Italy began to celebrate. BUT Hitler attacked the US on Italian soil. Thus was the battle called "Bloody Anzio".
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The first day of the Allied invasion, code-named Operation Overlord
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This is the first time Soviet troops encountered a Nazi death camp. The Germans tried to hide their evidence but there was no hiding their hideous crimes.
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Hitler's last-gasp offensive towards the Allied powers.
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Allies captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. This was one of the most heavily defended spots on earth. More than 6000 marines died trying to capture this island.
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US Marines invaded Okinawa and faced much opposition to Japanese army.
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While posing for a portrait, President Roosevelt has a stroke and dies. That night, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president.
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Hitler kills himself and his wife, and a week later General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich.
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First atomic bomb tested!!!
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The first atomic bomb nick named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima (an important Japanese military center), the second atomic bomb code named Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan wanted to surrender.
