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The Japanese attack our naval fleet. Luckily they miss our submarines and our aircraft carriers were away from the port
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A group of the worlds best scientists work to create an atomic bomb for America.
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Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led a raid of 16 bombers over Japan, hightening spirits in America while damaging those in Japan
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The first time a Japanese assault was stopped. Carried out by airplanes attacking aircraft carriers
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Chester Nimitz's scout planes found Japanese aircraft carriers. Dive bombers and submarines destroyed the ships with the airplanes still on board.
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The leaders of America, Britain and The Soviet Union meet to discuss the reorganization of post war Europe
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Americans captured Iwo Jima after over a month of fighting and high casualties from heavily entrenched Japanese.
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An 81 day long battle for the island of Okinawa. Both sides suffered intense casualties however, the Japanese suffered far worse.
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America drops an atomic bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II
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A series of military tribunals held by the allied victors of WWII which prosecuted prominent leaders of nazi Germany during WWII
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Allied forces move in and occupy Japan after their surrender for eighty months
