World War 2

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    WORLD WAR II

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.

  • Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.

  • British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.

  • Allied forces break out of the Normandy beachhead and race eastward towards Paris.

  • Allied forces land in southern France near Nice and advance rapidly towards the Rhine River to the northeast.

  • US troops land in the Philippines.

  • US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

  • Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.

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