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Germans take control of Czechoslovakia
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Japanese bomb a U.S. naval base in Hawaii
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The U.S. decodes Japanese messages and stages a surprise attack near Midway Island
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An Allied strategy used against the the Japanese Empire that involved travelling from island to island slowly gaining more and more territory (also known as island hopping)
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German soldiers attempt and fail to take the Russian city of Stalingrad
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U.S. troops take control of Guadalcanal from the Japanese Empire
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Allied invasion of Normandy
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A meeting of the big three Allied nations before the end of the war to decide what to do with Europe after the war
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Hitler loses hope of winning the war and decides to take his own life
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Successful Soviet takeover of Berlin
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U.S. test of an Atomic Bomb
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A meeting of the big three Allied nations after Germany's surrender to decide what to do with Europe after the war
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The first of two atomic U.S. bombings of Japan
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The second of two atomic U.S. bombings of Japan the convinced Japan to surrender
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An American campaign to expel the Imperial Japanese forces from the Philippines
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Internment of Japanese Americans was the imprisonment of about 120,000 people of Japanese decent in the United States
