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The military draft
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Pearl Harbor
Started due to the US stopping all trade to Japan which made Japan low on resources. -
Japanese internment
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Battle of the Bulge
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D-Day
First time on Germany soil. Thousands killed -
Kamikazes
Japanese believed this was the ultimate form of sacrifice and they would die in honor and glory -
The liberation of auschwitz
One of the worst concentration camps responsible for over 1.1 million deaths -
Iwo Jima
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Okinawa
Last major battle of World War Two and was one of the bloodiest -
Adolf Hitler's death
Adolf Hitler killed himself with cyanide and a gunshut wound to the head. He did this because Russian troops were going to capture him and he didn't want to face war crimes. -
Hiroshima
Happened so Japan would surrender and never be able to make war again -
Nagasaki
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Japanese surrender
The japanese surrendered due to the two atomic bombs dropped by the US which devastated two cities. Over 100,000 innocent people died because of these bombs which ended the war.
