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The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. -
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. -
US troops halt the Japanese island-hopping advance towards Australia at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. -
US and British troops land at several points on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in French North Africa. -
US and British troops land on Sicily. -
British, US, and Canadian troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans. -
Allied troops reach Paris. On August 25, Free French forces, supported by Allied troops, enter the French capital. By September, the Allies reach the German border; by December, virtually all of France, most of Belgium, and part of the southern Netherlands are liberated -
US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen. -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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