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Battles in the Atlantic lasted until the middle of 1943
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Naval forces stationed in Hawaii are attacked by Japan
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Winston Churchill called President Roosevelt to create the alliance after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler after working out war plans for three weeks in the White House
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Tokyo and other Japanese cities were raided
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Japanese forces were stopped from entering Australia by American forces
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Chester Nimitz fount the Japanese Fleet and torpedo planes and dive bombers were sent to attack
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Germans entered Stalingrad and later surrendered on January 31, 1943
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107,000 allied troops land in North Africa and stayed until Afrika Korps surrendered in May of 1943
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Tokyo and other Japanese cities were raided
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Continued after the capture of Sicily until 1945 when they were freed
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Invasion by the Allied forces
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Soviet troops found a Nazi death camp for the first time
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German tank invasion
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Trials for Nazi war crimes that lasted until 1949
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Over 1,000 Japanese troops were arrested by US troops occupying the land and were trialled.
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Allied powers pushed to a victory in the city of Yalta in Europe
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US soldiers attacked this land so that it could be used for bombers to more easily reach Japan. It was the most heavily defended spot on Earth for the Axis powers. Only about 200 Japanese soldiers survived out of the more than 20,000 involved.
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Japanese releases 1,900 kamikaze attacks when the US Marines invaded Okinawa
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Died from a stroke before V-E Day
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The Soviet Army stormed Berlin
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The first test of an atomic bomb and could be seen 180 miles away
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An atomic bomb landed in Hiroshima and two days later one in Nagasaki destroying everything and killing over 200,000 Japanese.