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An explosion destroyed a section of railway track near the city of Mukden.
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Germany invades Poland, marking the beginning of World War 1.
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Invasion of the soviet union by Nazi Germany.
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Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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A major offensive against Axis forces in Romania.
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a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which paved the way for the Battle of Berlin.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies, effectively ending the war in Europe.
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United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people.
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By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had become incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.