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a post-World War I, four-funnel Clemson-class destroyer—was the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in the European theater of World War II
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The nuclear age began on July 16, 1945, when it was detonated in the New Mexico desert. The First Nuclear Bomb.
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The German invasion began on 1 September 1939 in which Poland was taken over by Blitzkrieg.
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Not much active warfare at this eight month period of time.
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German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France
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The Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.
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It experienced mixed messaging with antisemitic and pro-fascist rhetoric from leading members, until being taken down three days after the attack on pearl harbor.
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The 1940 law instituted conscription in peacetime, requiring the registration of all men between 21 and 35, with selection for one year's service by a national lottery.
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the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of the world shared Americans' entitlement to four freedoms
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USS Kearny (DD 432) was part of the Neutrality patrol in the Caribbean.
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Surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II.
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Represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines
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the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war
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a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between 4 and 7 June 1942
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Was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union
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Took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
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Planed the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers
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The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
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It was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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A few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte.
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the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front
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The only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term
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During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
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major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army
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a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or V-E Day, was celebrated on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Negotiation of terms after WWII.
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This silent footage, in both color and black and white, shows the preparation of the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” atomic bombs on Tinian Island
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This bomb was dropped second after little boy on the city of Nagasaki.
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the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II
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a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
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the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
