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German U-boats and warships - and later Italian submarines - were pitted against Allied convoys transporting military equipment and supplies across the Atlantic to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
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About half of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet was destroyed by a Japanese surprise attack. This forced the U.S. to join the war against the Axis.
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The Japanese took Guam, Hong Kong, and Wake Island. Destrroyed half his fighters planes.
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General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island.
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U.S. surrendered the Bataan Peninsula approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-milemarch to prison camps.
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Was an airr raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu.
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This four-day World War II skirmish marked the first air-sea battle in history. The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive episode in the struggle for naval contrrol in the Pacific Ocean, fought in June 1942.
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Most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide war in favor of the Allies.
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The military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched Operation Torch in North Africa, this amphibious operation inevitably postponed the landing in France until 1944, but at the same time it allowed the United States to complete mobilization of its immense industrial and manpower resources.
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American women provided clerical workers,truck drivers,instructors and lab technicians for the United States Army.
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Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies after Mussolini is deposted from power in Italy.
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The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target.
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After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infrantry Division.
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A counter attack ordered by Hitler which almost suceeded. Was a desperate attempt to drive a wedge between American and British forces.
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Caught trying to flee to Switzerland was captured and executed.
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Allied forces were now in position for an all-out assault against Hitler's capital. Hitler was by now a physical wreck shaken by tremors, paranoid from drugs and kept alive by mad dreams of a final victory. Since no one followed any of his orders he commited suicide next to his closest associates.
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The FDR gave the highest national priority to the development of an atomic bomb. Casted several billion dollars and employed tens of thousands of people.
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U.S. pilots dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and they dropped a second one on Nagasaki, this led to the surrender of Emperor Hirohito.
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