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September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II.
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German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944.
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https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/lend-lease When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that while the United States would remain neutral in law, he could “not ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well.”
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Nazi Germany launched a surprise attack against the Soviet Union, its ally in the war against Poland. By the end of the year, German troops had advanced almost 1,000 miles to the outskirts of Moscow.
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz The vital industries and transport centres that would be targeted for shutdown were valid military targets. It could be claimed civilians were not to be targeted directly, but the breakdown of production would affect their morale and will to fight
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_against_the_United_States
The course of relations between Germany and the United States had deteriorated since the beginning of World War II, inevitably so given the increasing cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom. -
A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March.
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https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway This fleet engagement between U.S. and Japanese navies in the north-central Pacific Ocean resulted from Japan’s desire to sink the American aircraft carriers that had escaped destruction at pearl Harbor
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To oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka,The uprising started on 19 April when the ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who then ordered the burning of the ghetto, block by block, ending on 16 May. A total of 13,000 Jews died, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
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a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/liberation-of-nazi-camps
Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders
the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. -
the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
