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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a shocking military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941
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On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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Auschwitz is known as the most notorious Nazi extermination center. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners, most of them Jewish, were thrown into chambers dozens at a time and gassed to death.
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Eights Air Force bombers, dispatched from their bases in England, to fly the first American bombing raid against the Germans, targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. Of 64 planes participating in the raid, 53 reached their target and managed to shoot down 22 German planes, and lost only three planes in return.
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uring World War II, the Nazis established more than 400 ghettos in order to isolate Jews from the non-Jewish population and from neighboring Jewish communities, after creating these communties the Nazis got otders to destroy them and kill the civlians living there
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
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generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history, was fought in waters of the Leyte Gulf, near the Philippine islands of Leyte
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Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany, and Wife, Eva burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, ate cyanide capsule, then shoots themslves with a pistol, on this day in 1945,
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On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machin
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On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II.
