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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria.
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Blitzkrieg is the German term for "lightning war". It is used to disorganize the enemy forces through mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Hitler used it to invade Poland.
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The attack started at 7:55 A.M., and ended at 9:45 A.M.. The Japanese attacked the U.S. without warning on a Sunday. They thought we would let our guard down on a weekend.
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More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along the French coastline to fight Nazi Germany.
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After six years and millions of lives lost, the Nazi empire was crushed and the war in Europe was finally over.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Immediately killing 80,000 people, later killing more from the radiation.
