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Japanese invasion of China
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German Blitzkrieg
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Germany's invasion of Poland
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Operation Barbarossa
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Pearl Harbor
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Wannsee Conference
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Operation Gomorrah
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D-Day (Normandy lnvasion)
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Operation Thunderclap
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Battle of low Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima, a key island in the Bonin chain roughly 575 miles from the Japanese coast, was sparked by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marianas, and for a base for escort fighters that would assist in the, bombing campaign.
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Battle of Okinawa
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
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Battle of the Bulge
Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign (April 1—June 22, 1945) involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
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VE Day
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Dropping of the atomic bombs
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VJ Day
