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This is the day that would dreadfuly bring war to the world a second time
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Beginning on 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces in a series of mobile operations, eventually leading to the conquest of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the end of land operations on what had been the Western Front.
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. On 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe unleashed a merciless bombing campaign against London and Britain's major cities.
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During World War II, the United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
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On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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7. The United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway. This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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American and other Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day to beginthe liberation of Western Europe.
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To end the conflict between the U.S and Japan, the U.S drop two bombs on Japam (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) taking Japan almost entirely out the war