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attacked by 353 Japanese fighters ,bombers, torpedoes, and planes in 2 waves.
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The U.S. enters after being bombed in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese
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A long 70 mile march during WWII from Mariveles to San Fernando.
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Military strategy
employed by the Allies in the Pacific war against Japan and the Axis Powers during World War II. Destroying Japan's main sources of supplies and making them weak. -
Battle between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe.
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Soviet union liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War President of the United States and the only Chief Executive in history who was chosen for more than two terms, died suddenly.
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also known as Victory in Europe day
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which was battle of the war in the pacific..
the Japanese had planned to capture Midway to use as an advance base. -
also referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK
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the United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first of two such dropped on Japan this week.
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On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the U.S. at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender
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Stands for Victory over Japan Day which was when Japan surrendered and ended WWII.