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German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital.
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939-1941/german-invasion-of-poland#:~:text=Julien%20Bryan%20Archive-,September%201%2C%201939,on%20Warsaw%2C%20the%20Polish%20capital. -
Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. During the Battle of Dunkirk from May 26 to June 4, 1940, some 338,000 British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk to England as German forces closed in on them.
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The Battle of Moscow occurred between October 1941 and January 1942 when the Soviet Union's Red Army launched a massive counterattack against Nazi Germany's forces as they came close to assaulting the Russian capital of Moscow.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941.
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The Battle of Midway was an epic clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy’s decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway