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A joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. -
The Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and this is the moment when The United Sates decided to join the war against Germany and Japan. -
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia. -
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany. -
The program was initially tasked with protecting cultural sites from Allied bombing but later evolved to find, recover, and return artworks stolen by the Nazis. Composed of professionals like art historians and museum curators, the Monuments Men saved countless priceless works of art and historical artifacts. -
A major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. It is the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. -
A major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army -
A major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army -
The 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the longest-serving U.S. president, as well as the only one to have served more than two terms. -
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi period from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. -
This was the first time a nuclear weapon was used in warfare and resulted in immense death and destruction, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war in the Pacific. -
A plutonium-based implosion-type weapon dropped by the American B-29 bomber Bockscar. The original target was the city of Kokura, but due to heavy cloud cover, the mission was diverted to its secondary target, Nagasaki, an important industrial port city.