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The Japanese launched a surprise aerial attack on the US naval station at Pearl Harbor -
The Japanese forces forced 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) to march 66 miles (106 kilometers) in the Philipp
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Bombing raided by the US Army Air Forces on Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
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A naval and air battle in which a US fleet pushed back a Japanese invasion force aiming for New Guinea's vital Pot Moresby. -
The war was virtually entirely fought with aircraft, with the US destroying Japan's first-line carrier force and the majority of its best... -
In and around this strategically vital city on the Volga River, which bore the name of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, The Soviet Union inf...
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An uneasy compromise between the western allies, it was designed to erase pressure on the Soviet Union