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A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military technique that was designed to confuse among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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Hitler wanted everyone to be blonde hair blue eyes and no jews. It caused other countries to get involved and over all problems arose.
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Hitler broke the treaty of versailles, he made his own army , its important because other countries were angry and wanted to attack but wouldnt
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One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland.
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Between 20,00o and 80,00 , thousands of people were murdered , its important because it was a huge amount of people dying in the world when death was already a major issue during the time period.
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HItler had 95 warships when he wasnt suppose to have any.
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The Dunkirk evacuation was code-named Operation Dynamo, it was to be known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, it was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour
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The battle of Britain was the "air battle" for them.It is described as the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces.
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the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States.
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a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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a series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa.
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US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. These were the only times nuclear weapons have been used in war.
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Victory in Europe day is a public holiday celebrated, to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II
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Victory over Japan Day is the day that the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, causing ww2 to be over.
