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Battle of Attlantic
The German U-boats were destructive and destroyed everyone.
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Soviet Union joins Allies
Soviet Union joins allie powers consisting of France
Canada and Great britain. The Axis powers consisted of Germany
Italy
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2 attacks on Pearl harbor by Japaneese
2,400 U.S. military and civilians lost their lives
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United States declare war on Japan
The United States declare war on Japan because Japan bombed the United states a day earlier. -
Germany and Italy declare war on United states of America
The U.S declared war on Japan and Japan is allied with Italy and Germany. -
United States of America joins Allies
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Battle of the coral sea
Japan tried invading Australia and the United states stopped them from attacking. Before this battle the Japaneese were conquiring ever battle they fought in. This was the turning point in the war between Japan and the Us. -
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Battle of midway
The United states intercepeted Japaneese code and launched a surprise attack on Japan. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans attack russia and try to control Russia, Russians were used to the harsh winters and that is the reason the Germans lost the war. This was the turning point of the war. -
D-Day
This attack was the largest air to sea to land attack of all time with a 60 mile stretch of land covered and 11 000 planes. By the end of the horrific (D-Day) there were nearly 425,000 Allied and German troops were wounded, missing, or killed. -
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Battle of Bulge
80 miles of american line got broken through by German tanks.This battle was fought in Belgium and Germany was trying to gain more land and the Alied powers fought back. -
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United states Occupied Japan
28 of Japan's leaders were on trialed and 7 of them were sentenced to death. -
Yalta Conference
This was a conference that took place before the end of the war.Churchill,Stalin and Roosevelt met in Russia for post war meetings -
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Battle of Okinawa
Japan was desperate and used everything they had to try and win. The reason they were desperate is because they were fighting on there last deffensive stronghold. The Japaneese even used 1900 Kamikaze pilots and 110 000 Japaneese troops died. The United states won this war. -
hitler "Kills" himself
Hitler and his Secetary Eva Braun killed themself and the the whole world knows about this. There bodies were burned and nobody every knows if Hitler was actually dead. -
Victory in Europe day
The third Reich surrenderd to the Allie powers, Hitler was "daed at this time so someone else surrendered Germany that wasn't Hitler. -
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Potsdam
Churchill, Clement, Stalingrad and Truman met in Germany to talk abot the Germans and how to disarm them and take all there power away. -
Postdam pt.2
The Allies divided Germany into four sections controlled by Russia, France, Great Britain and United States. The four countries held a traial to prosecute Nazi criminals for war crimes. -
The Bombing of Hiroshimai (Manhatten project)
This Nuclear bomb was set of by the United states on japan and it was called "little boy". This Nuclear bomb destroyed the city to dust in 43 seconds. -
Bombing of Nagasaki (Manhatten project)
This was the second of the U.S bombings on Japan. This nuclear bomb destroyed half of the city of Nagasaki. 200 000 people died from the combined two nuclear attacks. -
V-J Day
Japan offers unconditional surrender. September 2 Japan formally surenders. -
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Nuremburg Trials
International court trialed Nazi officials. 23+ countries trialed Nazi war criminals. 22 war criminals were trialed and 12 wre sentenced to death. There were approximatly 200 more Nazi criminals prosecuted but they were given less sentincing.