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time magazine names hitler man of the year
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a ship of mainly jewish passengers is refused passage into cuba
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germany attacks poland via bombing to regain land
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germany invades france and they surrender
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wwII air battle fought by the royal air force to guard brittan.
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main means of providing aid to foreign countries
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the US refuses to sell the japanese oil or steel and freezes their bank acounts
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U.S. Navy had the responsibility of protecting convoys in the nearby sea routes from attack by German submarines.
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an attack via bombing on the us's pearl harbor by the japanese
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Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a future peace.
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Italy has signed an unconditional armistice with the Allies
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On D-Day, three airborne divisions, one British and two American, would drop behind the landing beaches.
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The unseemly race between British and American forces to be the first to reach Rome was the culmination of a series of blunders by the Allies, including a disastrous setback on the Rapido River, and at Anzio, where they were nearly thrown back into the sea
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the last major german offense of wwII
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While sitting for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage
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After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed
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Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II.
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The public holiday celebrated on 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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the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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the day hitler killed himself
