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German criminal in Polish clothing was shot to look like he was trying to invade. There was a long Blitzkrieg, or lighting war. The shooting just kept going for the whole month. Germany victory by end of the month.
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Weser Day
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President Roosevelt signed into law the first peacetime Selective Service Act
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Code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
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Most of the Pacific fleet was docked. It was before 8 a.m. when the first fleet of Japanese planes attacked. 20 warships, 200 aircrafts destroyed. 2,400 Americans killed. USS Arizona was one of three ships that could not be restored and was left sunk at the harbor. This was totally unexpected. Only 2 of their 3 fleets attacked.
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Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando
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First major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
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Major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
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Ten days of ferocious pounding, was complete Allied victory, although Rommel’s army escaped annihilation and slipped away from an unenterprising pursuit. 100,000 men in total
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British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War
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Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele
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American forces took possession back from the Nazi's
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More than 160,000 Allied troops. Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe. American and Brittish troops. Called Operation Overload
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Took less than a month. Battle was on an island against the Japanese.
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Lrgest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies
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Hilter killed himself. Then the Nazi's had to surrender.
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Successfully tested the bomb
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80,000 Japanese killed.
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Over 40,000 killed.
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August 15, 1945 -Emperor Hirohito surrendered over the radio. Surrender happened on the USS Missouri.
