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Start of the war in Atlantic/European Theater
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought eniterly by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Start of war in the pacific
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Pearl Harbor
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US joins the war
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Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer of American and Filipino POW's after the Batle of Bataan in the Philippines. The march was 80 miles long and the prisoners were subjected to a wide range of physical abuse. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaing. It was fought in air and in the sea with warships. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. This battle stopped Germany from moving East again in the war. -
D-day
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment) was a major battle in which the US foguth for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The battle consisted of shooting by warships in the harbour, air attacks, and ground warfare. -
V-E day
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Hiroshima Bombing
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Nagasaki Bombing
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V-J day
