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In Belgium's, Luxembourg, and France forested Ardennes region, German soldiers staged a surprise attack on Allied forces. The Germans did this to push out the Allies but in the end Germany lost a bunch of resources, many soldiers, tanks and aircrafts, because of this the Allies got to invide Germany. The Battle ended January 25, 1945.
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The start of the bombing was with a USAAF Eighth Air Force. Allied firebombing operations commence against Dresden, Germany, reducing the "Florence of the Elbe" to ruins and flames and killing around 25,000 people.
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The strategic importance of Iwo Jima to the US war effort could hardly be overstated. Taking the island meant more than capturing the Japanese country symbolically. It also meant that American bombs with fighter escorts could fly over Japan. It was also when the rose the flag for all the Marines that died.
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Operation Iceberg, better known as the Battle of Okinawa. It was the largest amphibious landing in World War II's Pacific region. It also resulted in the highest number of losses, with over 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 Allied casualties. This article details the 80-day war for the island of Okinawa, which has been dubbed the "typhoon of steel" by some. This is also when the United States took the last island the Japanese had.
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Adolf Hitler, shut up in a bunker under his Berlin headquarters, commits suicide by taking a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon later, Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces, putting an end to Hitler's fantasy of a "1,000-year" Reich.
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General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signs the unconditional surrender of all German troops, East and West, at Reims, northern France. The Germans surrender because they wanted to prevent an illegitimate surrender.
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V-E Day, or 'Victory in Europe Day,' is the date on which the German armed forces accepted an unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War in Europe to a close. This day was celebrated all around, people would put up flags and banners for this victory.
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A US B29 Superfortress aircraft known as the 'Enola Gay' drops the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The explosion killed an estimated 80,000 people on the spot, with tens of thousands more dying later from radiation poisoning. At 8:15 a.m., the aircraft dropped the Boy bomb, which detonated 2,000 feet over Hiroshima in a detonation equivalent to 12-15,000 tons of TNT, leveling five square miles of the city.
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Three days later , The US Superfortress 'Bockscar' drops a second atomic bomb on the Japanese military port of Nagasaki. At 11:02 a.m., the bomb was dropped 1,650 feet over the city. The blast was powerful enough to detonate 22,000 tons of TNT. The city's surrounding hills performed a better job of restraining the devastating power, but the death toll is believed to be between 60,000 and 80,000 people.
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V-J day, is Victory over Japan day. Japan finally surrendered after 2 atomic bomb were dropped on there cities World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in history, comes to an end.