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Blitzkrieg
German troops invade northern France and Poland. Hitlers succes led him to continue using the Blitzkrieg tactic. -
Pearl Harbor
Ships distract craft at Pearl Harbor. -
Japanese Internment
Over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States were placed in "War Relocation camps". -
D-Day
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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima (Pacific Theatre)
A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Shoah
On April 30, 1945 Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps. -
Fat Man and Little Boy
The Little Boy Bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 -
United Nations
The UN officially came into existance. -
Nuremburg Trials
The prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Zionism
UN divided Palestine into two states. One for Arabs and the other for Jews.