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The Great Depression is when the stock markets crashed in New York after, almost all Americans were poor and were unemployed leading to starvation.
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Allied forces landing on a beach in Normandy in order to break through the German lines and mount an invasion to regain Normandy from Germany.
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With help from the underground French resistance allied forces started arriving in France to liberate them from Germany.
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General McArthur continued to push for the Philippines capturing the island of Leyte.
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Allied victory against German forces at the western border, Germany making a bulge in their forces where this battle gets its name. Dec 16, 1944 – Jan 25, 1945
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The allies captured a key city called Manila.
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American marines capture a small but strategically located island called Iwo Jima.
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President Roosevelt dies for multiple medical complications his death was also very sudden.
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Hitler kills himself in his bunker in Berlin with allied forces surrounding him on all fronts.
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Churchill, Truman, and Stalin held a meeting that basically meant to Japan “surrender or Be annihilated”.
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With the U.S. carrying out its threat the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Just three days later the U.S. dropped a second atom bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japanese leaders sued for peace ending japans involvement in the war.
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Allies holding a surrender ceremony for Japan also known as V-J day.
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All soldiers of the Axis powers were put on trial for their crimes during the war.
