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The Republic of China and the Empire of Japan fought on July 7. The Japanese lost due to surrender.
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Germany took over Austria. Adolf Hitler led them to victory.
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Germany invaded Poland. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September, 1939, 27 days after the invasion started.
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After a fierce debate in Congress in November a final Neutrality Act passed. The bans on the loans remained in effect, and the American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports.
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The Battle of France is also known as the Fall of France. France had declared war on Germany following the invasion of its ally Poland.
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bombing during WW 1 introduced air attacks intended to panic civilian targets. And led in 1918 to the amalgamation of British army and navy air services into the Royal Air Force.
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Dependence on American exports causes an oil crisis in Japan. The United States was contacted by the prime minister of Japan but Roosevelt refused to have a meeting.
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The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. Plus, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States.
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army. 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles etc. via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of WW2. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer made the atomic bomb. Then the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 in 1945. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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V-Day, is a day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference. It was the WW2 meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia. Officially known as Operation Danube.