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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews.
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On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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German bombers hit air bases in France
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the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister.
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940.
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the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise ...
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code-named Operation Watchtower
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The Second Battle of El Alamein was a major battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States
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After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed
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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot
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The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II.
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The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II.
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The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 1947–91 is common
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
