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, also known as the Air Battle for England was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) -
a Japanese surprise attack on the United states at pearl harbor. -
On the morning of June 4, 1942, aircraft from Japanese carriers attacked and damaged the US base on Midway. -
The Battle of Stalingrad -
an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. -
Together the Monuments Men worked to protect monuments and other cultural treasures from the destruction of World War II. -
ngagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk -
U.S forces storm the beaches of Normandy. -
German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. -
American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II -
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The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. -
FDR dies after starting his fourth term as 32nd U.S president. -
Adolf Hitler kills himself and his newly married wife to avoid capture. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device.