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Japanese invaded China to spread beliefs and power
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The blitzkrieg was a fighting style used by the Germans it started in 1939 but proved to work for years to come.
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The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II,
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base
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Operation Gomorrah killed 42,600 people, left 37,000 wounded and caused some one million German civilians to flee the city
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II
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the Soviets would lose 600 more soldiers in Silesia before the Germans finally surrendered.
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