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The extermination of European Jewish people by the Nazis. Hitler believed they were inferior.
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Germany invades Poland. Hitler considered Polish people inferior and wanted Germans to live there
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Benito Mussolini had declared war on Britain and France. He invades Egypt in an attempt to expand his empire.
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Top secret US government program to developed the first atomic weapon before Nazi Germany.
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The Japanese military attacks the United States Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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antiJapanesse suspicion was growing in the US which led to the Roosevelt administration placing Japanese Americans in camps for the duration of the war.
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A four-day sea and air battle. The outnumbered US pacific Fleet destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
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the start of the campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation
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Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US to force a quick surrender by the Japanese and to test the worlds first atomic bomb in combat.
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Hitlers last major offense during WW2 against the Western Front