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Civil war between the communists and nationalist in 1930
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
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A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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would take such a public declaration of help as but a prelude to a formal declaration of war. While the material aid would be forthcoming, no such commitment would be made formal and public.
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
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Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb
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In July 1942, the Nazi Army bombs the Soviet city of Stalingrad, launching one of the bloodiest battles in history.
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British bombers lost increased with each raid as the Germans became more adept at distinguishing between Window diversions and actual bombers, Operation Gomorrah proved devastating to Hamburg—not to mention German morale.
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the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.
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This involved the RAF and U.S. Air Force in which they bombed many German cities
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a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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Also, Operation Detachment. The U.S. took 216 of the Japanese as prisoners and the other 18,000 were either missing or killed. This was basically a continuation of the Battle of Coral Sea.
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the bloodiest battle of the Pacific, and the last major battle of the war. More died here than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a series of island hops that was intended to reach mainland Japan codenamed Operation Downfall.
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Victory in Europe mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Attempt to Invade of Japan
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Surrender to the world that created celebrations throughout the world
