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also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War .
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945
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The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.
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it was posponed.
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was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad.
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by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters.
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was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II
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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.
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was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942.
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sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, The Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, as the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea
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is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated
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the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and many French soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.
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during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
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was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time
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fought over the winter months of 1944 – 1945, was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies in World War Two
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or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan.
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was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II.
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is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan.
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Nagasaki