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On Sunday Dec. 7th, 1941, the United States was surprised by a Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Causing lots of damage to the American Naval Fleet. The attack lasted a few hours and it was a day that will "live in infamy".
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A Japanese force on its way to attack Port Moresby, New Guinea, and seized Tulagi Island. Before Japan could reach New Guinea a British-U.S. naval force stopped them. U.S. damaged a Japanese carrier and destroyed another and several aircraft. Allies lost a carrier.
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U.S. fighters, divebombers, and torpedo planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down many enemy planes.
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It was fought in the deserts of North Africa. The Allied victory lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa.
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This was the first major offensive battle for the United States. It went on for six months.
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The effort of a group of scientists who had been working to create an atomic bomb. They named them Little boy and Fat man. They dropped one of the bombs on Hiroshima. Then they dropped the second one on Nagasaki.
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North Africa offered a gateway to the Italian island of Sicily. Allied leaders invaded Silcly. They wanted to get the Axis forces out of the central Mediterranean.
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It was an Allied invasion of German-occupied France. The Allies landed farther south in Normandy.
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This is when Germany launched their last counterattack They pushed westward to create a dangerous bulge in the Allied lines.
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This was the last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific. It was a disaster for the Japanese and they were no longer a threat to the Allies
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to plan for postwar peace. They decided to agree and divide and occupy Germany after the war and outlined plans for a new international peace organization.
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It lasted six weeks. Several thousand marines and more than 20,000 Japanese soldieres were killed. U.S. Marines struggled to take Mount Suribachi and when they reached the mountaintop the planted the U.S. flag.
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U.S. battleships and other warships made the Japanese to retrat to the southern tip of the island.One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war.
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Great Britain and the United States celebrated victory. Cities in both nations put out flags and banners because of the defeat of the Nazis
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