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A surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese.
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On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war, and the United States entered World War II.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific which lasted from June 3-6 and resulted inthe USA defeating the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
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British and American forces under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower landed in the NorthWest of Africa and assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria and they gradually closed in on the Germans.
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The British and American forces defeated the Axis forces in North Africa
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Mussolini had been thrown out of office and the new government of Italy surrendered to the British and the U.S. They then agreed to join the allies.
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The allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, Western France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion army under the supreme command of general Eisenhower to the Normandy beaches.
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The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
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President Roosevelt died. He was succeeded by President Truman.
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The German leader, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bombproof shelter
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Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
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The Japanese generals refused to surrender. The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima.
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The US dropped an atomic bomb on the island of Nagasaki as the Japanese had not surrendered following Hiroshima.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
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US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan’s surrender thus formally ending the second world war.
