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During the spirit sino-japaneses War, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces, and the Chinese government flees to Hankow, further island along the Yangtze River.
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Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris
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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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July 17-August 2, 1945, was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. It was attended by Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain
