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US secret nuclear research
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arked the end of the second polish republic and resulted in the annexation of western Poland.
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Battle of france was a german vicotry
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known as the Phoney War, refers to an eight-month period at the start of World War II,
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force
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Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, fifty mothballed Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson-class US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy
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was organized to oppose America`s potential intervention in World War II.
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The Selective Service Act or Selective Draft Act authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry
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were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Was attacked by a German submarine.
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convoys bound for Great Britain carrying war materials from our "Arsenal of Democracy." sunk by german U Boats
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On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
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represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines
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forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war
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major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea the United States Navy under decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. Deploying a far larger contingent of soldiers and tanks than the opposition, a British commander launched an infantry attack at El Alamein
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Island hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers.
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The Casablanca Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. The conference agenda addressed the specifics of tactical procedure, allocation of resources and the broader issues of diplomatic policy
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more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade
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the Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister, and Soviet Premier in Tehran, Iran.During the Conference, the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War II era.
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after advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard.
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The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and Premier Joseph Stalin
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was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima
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The Battle of Okinawa was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.
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President Franklin Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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Victory in Europe Day marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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he Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof. Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier.
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"Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare.
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news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
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the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes.
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In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
