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a joint attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union that began World War II. -
The Battle of Britain was between Britain's Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe Nazi Germany’s air force and was the first battle in history fought solely in the air. -
surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. -
A battle between the United States and Japan during World War II. Its important because it stopped the growth of Japan in the Pacific and put the United States in a position to begin shrinking the Japanese empire. -
The Soviet Union won the Battle of Stalingrad against a German offensive that attempted to take the city of Stalingrad during World War II. -
Operation Torch was a World War II Allied invasion of French North Africa from November 8–16, 1942. -
an international group established in 1943 that worked under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections to help protect cultural property during and after World War II. -
unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. -
More than 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
The Battle of the Bulge was a surprise German counteroffensive in World War II that took place in the Ardennes Forest -
Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen. -
The Battle of Okinawa was a major World War II battle that took place on the island of Okinawa from April 1 to June 22, 1945 -
On April 12, while sitting for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. -
Hitler killed himself in the Führerbunker beneath the city streets of Berlin. -
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device on August 9, 1945, caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II.