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German troops invade northern France and Poland. Hitlers succes led him to continue using the Blitzkrieg tactic.
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Ships distract craft at Pearl Harbor.
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Over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States were placed in "War Relocation camps".
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Nearly 5,000 troop transports, landing craft and warships carried some 150,000 U.S. Canadian and British soldiers across the Channel to storm Normandy beach.
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A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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On April 30, 1945 Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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The Little Boy Bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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The UN officially came into existance.
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The prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
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UN divided Palestine into two states. One for Arabs and the other for Jews.