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Allied forces were cornered by german armies. They eventually were pushed out of Europe.
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As WWII loomed, the British and the French planned to fight an updated version of what happened in 1914-1918 during WWI.
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Germany, Italy, and Japam won a series of victories in North Africa. But shortages of equipment and fuel, along with supply lines, and under Allied attack meant the Allies were able to win the Desert War.
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Between summer and fall of 1940, first all air battle in history, Britain vs. Germany for control of France
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
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the Germans code-named it 'Operation Typhoon' - started on October 2nd 1941. The capture of Moscow, Russia's capital, was seen as vital to the success of 'Operation Barbarossa'. Hitler believed that once the heart - Moscow - had been cut out of Russia, the whole nation would collapse.
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The Japenese make a sneak attack on the US, killing thousands of US soldiers, while the Japenese only lost 30 men.
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German U-Boats were the biggest threats to Britains over-sea supplies. Better weapons and detection devices, trained convoy support groups, long-range aircraft and escort carries all helped to defeat the threar of the U-Boats
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.
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The successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.
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The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
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Kursk was to be the biggest tank battle of World War Two and the battle resulted in a severe crisis for Nazi Germany’s war machine in Russia
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The Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though they had been fighting in mainland Italy for some nine months, the Normandy invasion was in a strategically more important region
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Saipan had a strategic importance because it was relatively close to the home islands of Japan. The next year it would be the place of operations for the planes that would eventually carry and drop the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The World War II clash followed the Allied landing at the Philippine island of Leyte in October 1944. The Japanese sought to converge three naval forces on Leyte Gulf, and successfully diverted the U.S. Third Fleet with a decoy.
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Considered the most brutal battle in the pacific theater. All but 216 Japenese soldiers either died in battle, or comitted suicide.
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An 82-day-long assault on the Japanese Island of Okinawa, the battle was the largest in the Pacific Theater of war. Japan lost at least 100,000 men and thousands of civilians, and the Americans lost over 50,000 troops.
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 3 days later, a seoncd was dropped on Nagasaki.
