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The name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base
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The United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.[
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Was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.
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It was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II.
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A Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front between July and August 1943.
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The invasion of Normandy, France.
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A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire
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Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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He suffered a massive stroke and died.
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Committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
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During World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
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Was conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime.
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A major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
