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Hitler wanted more land. It was the start of World War 2.
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Stalin failed to get Finland to his own empire.
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Defeat of Hitler
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The war began on the 10th of July and end on the 31st of October.
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A way for the U.S. to give aid to foreign nations during the war.
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He wanted the Balkans to expand his amount of area available for his invasion of the USSR in 1941.
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A surprise air attack was launched by the Japanese onto the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor. It caused the U.S. to join World War 1.
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Fought in the deserts of North Africa. One of the decisive victories of WW2. July 1 to 27, 1942.
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A major battle in WW2 in which Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. Fought from July 1942 to February 1943.
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The Battle of Guadalcanal was in 1942 and happened when the US Marines landed on August 7th. Codenamed “Operation Watchtower” by allied forces.
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The Japanese were relocated here. "America's concentration camps."
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Meeting in 1943 in Tehran to discuss strategy. November 28 to Dec. 1.
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The most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of WW2. June 2, 1944.
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Invasion of Normandy, France.
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WW2 meeting between the heads of the state of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Started on the 4th of February and ended on the 11th of February 1945.
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FDR died of cerebral hemrage on the 12th of April in 1945 at warm springs.
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Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945.
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1941 to 1945
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He and his wife were shot by Italian partisans.
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The German Blitzkrieg was a military tactic based on speed and surprise.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945 after WW2 to replace the League of Nations.
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A series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945 to 1949 where the allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, and industrialists.
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A plan for the invasion of Japan.
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Held in Potsdam, Germany near Berlin. Held at Cecilienhof. It was an allied conference. The purpose was to clarify and implement agreements previously reached at the Yalta conference. July 17 to August 2.
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The bombings were conducted by the United States in the final stages of World War 2 in 1945.
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It was between the United States and the Soviet Union. 1947 to 1991.
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The American Program to aid Europe. 1948.
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Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to the citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
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Winston Chruchill is Prime Minister. He died in 1965.
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A guarded wall built between east and west Berlin by the communist authorities.
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This was the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war.
