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Japanese planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor dying more than 2400 servicemens.
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He addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress on December 8. Congress approved Roosevelt’s declaration of war on Japan.
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The United States declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a massive government spending budget, the largest in American history.
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In the first major Allied offensive, British and U.S. armies attack Germany's Africa Korps on the Mediterranean.
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U.S. troops land in Algiers, Oran, and Casablanca in North Africa, the leadership of this operation was General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Russian Red Army traps and captures German armies that invaded the Soviet Union.
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Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Casablanca in North Africa to plan attacks on all fronts, to invade Sicily and Italy, to send forces to the Pacific, and to better aid the Soviet Union.
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The Italian government officially surrenders to the Allied powers.
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The Allied powers announce the Cairo Declaration, this has the intention of establishing an international organization to maintain the peace and security of the world.
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Rome falls to Allied forces.
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The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France.
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Adolf commits suicide in Berlin.
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The German army signed their surrender.
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United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly.
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A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay. World War II officially ends.