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This was the location that Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met to discuss an invasion through the english channel.
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D-Day was the storming of Omaha beach. Omaha beach was heavily guarded and there were roughly 10,000 casualties.
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The allies took back Paris in 6 days from the Germans. The germans could not fight a 2 front war.
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This battle was a counter-attack ordered by Hitler. This surprise attack almost worked but having failed the German army was crippled.
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Iwo Jima was a key victory for the allies since it was close to Japan and a great place for a base. The japanese soldiers there only lasted a moth before being defeated.
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This was the last major battle of WW2. This was the perfect place to prepare for the first atomic bomb and end japans resistence.
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Hitler committed suicide because there was no hope left of winning the war and afterwards Germany gave up the fight.
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The Manhattan project was the codename for atomic bomb research. The bomb was endorsed by Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer headed the research.
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The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and 3 days later the second on Nagasaki. In total abot 150,000 people were killed frm the bombs.
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Japan signs an unconditional surrenders ending WW2
