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Blitzkrieg is a word used to describe a surprise attack that has armored vehicles, artillery, and close air support.
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During the WWII the fall of Paris was the German invasion of the Low Countries and France.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Air force on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and at the time the U.S was a neutral country in World War II.
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A meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany leaders that was held in Berlin
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of WWII, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union
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An amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place ,during the Italian campaign of World War II. The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group and followed the successful Allied invasion of Sicily.
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D-Day was the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy and it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution"
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which U.S Marines and the U.S Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan
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The Battle of Okinawa, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the U.S Army forces against the Japanese Army.
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Germany surrendered its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945 and it marked the official end of World War II in Europe
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The U.S detonated a atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, AKA "Little Boy," was the first nuclear weapon used in war.
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"Fat Man", was the codename for the type of nuclear weapon the United States detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
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Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast the surrender to the Japanese people on Radio Tokyo
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The battle of the bulge was the last major German offensive campaign during WW2