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WWII
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Nazi party came into power
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Munich Agreement
Britain and France agreed to Hitler's demands. -
Germany invades Poland
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Battle of France
France and Britain lost France to Germany. -
Battle of Britain
Germany attempts to invade Britain, but looses. -
Japan bombs the Pearl Harbor
US declares war on Japan the next day. -
First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine
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U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General MacArthur out of the Philippines
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U.S. cruisers and destroyers defeat a Japanese task force in the Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal.
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Battle of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal between U.S. And Japanese warships results in the loss of the Carrier HORNET.
SANTA CRUZ!!!!!! -
Operation Torch
The Allies land in Morocco and Algeria and defeat the Vichy forces there. Gaining ground and supplies. -
Allies defeat Japanese at Sanananda on New Guinea
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Japan announces captured Allied pilots will be given "one way tickets to hell."
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Strategic Bombing
The US Army Air Force now had two locations to conduct the Strategic Bombing of the German industry and resources. -
U.S. Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
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Operation Cobra
The US 8th and 9th Air forces conduct a concentrated ‘carpet bombing’ mission assisting in the break out attack of the US 1st Army. -
American troops complete the capture of the Mariana Islands
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Operation Anvil (Dragoon)
US 7th Army lands in Southern France to support the attack in Normandy. -
U.S. airborne troops recapture Corregidor in the Philippines
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Hitler Committs suicide
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Germany Surenders
Ending the war on the European front -
First Atomic Bomb is successfully tested in the U.S
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First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets
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Japanese in Burma surrender