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Germany inavades poland and starts world war one
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Japan attacks Pearl harbor sending the United States in to WWII
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The battle of Normandy. Allies invaded Normandy. Largest sea born invasion is history.
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Marines stomped beaches of Iwo Jima
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287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II,
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Nazi forces surrendered
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allied forces tried to take over the island for a base
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Japan surrenders to the US