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The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War. The Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy protected the United Kingdom against some of the largest attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service brought upon the U.S. in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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This battle was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral
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Throughout the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought against the Soviets for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
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This was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during WW2. The French colonies in the area were Taken by the French, formally aligned with Germany but more of mixed loyalties. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies.
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The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program is under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of Allied armies. This was demonstrated in 1943 to create a better defense cultural property in war areas during and after World War II.
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This battle was a Second World War engagement including German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on D-Day of Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Offered referred to as Codename Operation Neptune
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The Battle of the Bulge was also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, which was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. Resulted in the germans being defeated.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was an interesting military campaign between the U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. The campaign was Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan.
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This was a crucial battle of the Pacific War taken place on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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On a clear, nice spring day at FDR's Warm Springs, Georgia, retreat, Roosevelt himself sat in the living room with Lucy Mercer, two cousins and his dog Fala. While the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff painted his portrait. According to presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, it was almost 1 p.m. when the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the back of his head and collapsed unconscious.
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Hitler was Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day from overtaking the chancellery and urged to escape to Berchtesgarden, the small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler owned a home. He instead chose suicide. Most believe that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules. For good measure, he shot himself with his service pistol.
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The United States set off two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings eliminated between 129,000 and 226,000 Japanese, most of them were civilians. This would result in the only conflict with nuclear warfare.
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“Fat Man,” which detonated at 11:02 local time at an altitude of 1,650 feet, wiped out about half the people in Nagasaki as the uranium-based “Little Boy” had in Hiroshima three days earlier. A force estimated at 21 kilotons, or 40 percent greater.The damage was ghastly. Close to 40,000 people were killed instantly, and a third of the city was destroyed.
