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Blitzkrieg is a method of defense warfare. Germany used this to defeat its opponents in a short period of time. After the blitzkrieg failed in the invasion of the soviet union Hitler and Germany military leaders denied using it. Later on in time allies adapted Blitzkrieg to their own advantage
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Hitler was determined to wreck France's economy and military and make its population smaller. Germans bombed the french capital. killing about 300 people most were civilians.
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The Japanese military launched a surprised attack on the US naval base and Army Air corps planes at Pearl Harbor ( Pearl Harbor is a US naval base in Hawaii). The affect of Pearl Harbor were 20 American ships, 300 planes, and more than 2,000 people died.
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The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Navy which was six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedo bombers make direct hits on three Japanese and a battleship. The effect of the Battle Of Midway is Japan lost 3,000 men, 200 pilots, 300 aircrafts, and 360 service men.
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Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the American and Filipino defenders of Luzon (the island on which Manila is located) were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. The effect was that thousands of troops died because of the brutality of their captors, they were starved, beatings, diseases and the lack of supply.
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Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.” Reinhard Heydrich made plans for the final solution.11,000,000 Jews in Europe would fall under the provisions of the "Final Solution." In this figure, he included not only Jews residing in Axis-controlled Europe, but also the Jewish populations of the United Kingdom, and the neutral nations (Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and European Turkey).
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in the Eastern front. A brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. Nazi Germany and its allies fought for control of the city Stalingrad. The effect of the battle is nearly 2 million troops died within 5 months.
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Battle of the Bulge was Adolf Hitler's last major offensive in World War II against the western front. The Battle of The Bulge happened under cold winter conditions. The Battle of the Bulge the US Army's greatest struggle to deny Adolf Hitler's last chance for victory.
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American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki. Causing Japans emperor to surrender.
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VJ Day is victory over Japan. Japan surrender to their Allie the Americans. VJ helped bring WWII too and end.
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The Battle of Okinawa is the last major war of WWII, The U.S and marine corps flee to the island Okinawa on the Pacific Ocean for a final push towards Japan. This caused a large death toll on both sides. The U.S had victory.
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VE Day is victory in Europe, celebrated by Great Britain and the United States. They celebrate because of the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II. Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers,
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan. 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines.
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Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there. SS officers began a murder spree in the camps, shooting sick prisoners and blowing up crematoria in a desperate attempt to destroy the evidence of their crimes.
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Resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.