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After resistance to Hitler's demand to be appointed as Chancellor, President Paul von Hindenburg gave in and appointed Hitler to this position as a result of a political deal.
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Japanese troops were seeking revenge for the comrades lost in the earlier battle. Violation of war laws was by murdering Chinese civilians, raping Chinese women, and destroying Chinese property. The death toll ranges from 40,000 to 200,000.
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The Munich Agreement was meant to be a peaceful agreement between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany.
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Became known as the night of broken glass when the Nazi regimen coordinated a wave of antisemitic violence toward the Jews.
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This pact allowed Germany to fight intermediate wars without fear of a Soviet attack, avoiding a two-front war. A month later Hitler order war plans for the Soviet Union.
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This invasion of Poland made by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union marked the start of World War II.
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Known as the western Campagne, the German invasion of France during world war II France declared war on Germany following the invasion of Poland.
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The battle of Dunkirk evolved into the rescue of more the 338,000 British and french soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th.
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An intense German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom.
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KNown as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, The first peacetime conscription in US history.
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The code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The failure of German forces to defeat Soviet forces signaled a crucial turning in the war.
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was planned to prevent US troops from interfering with their own planned forces in Southeast Asia against overseas territories.
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Prisoners suffered from starvation, and sleeping in harsh conditions, and the prisoners unable to make it through were beaten, killed, and sometimes beheaded.
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The United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best-trained pilots.
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Battle on the Eastern front where Nazi Germany unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad.
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Normandy landing code name of Operation Neptune. Biggest seaborne invasion in history.
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Known as the Ardennes Offensive, the last major German offensive campaign on the western Front during World War II.
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world War II meeting of heads of government of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar recognization of Germany and Europe.
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A major battle the US marine corp and the united states navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima.
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The major battle of the Pacific War was fought on the island by the US army and marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Hitler and his wife Eva Braun killed themselves in Fuhrerbunker in the streets below Berlin. It is said that they both swallowed cyanide pills and then Hitler shot himself and then his wife.
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Stands for Victory in Europe Day, celebrating the formal acceptance by the allies of WWII of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces, marking the official end of WWII.
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On August 6th the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. On August 9th the second bomb was dropped in the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered.