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a time during ww2 where Jews, homosexuals, and other minority groups were punished and killed.
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Hitler had control of the Germans, created the Nazis, caused the holocaust
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intended to secure land, get raw materials, and assert dominance.
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annexation of Austria.
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invaded by Germany, unprovoked, considered the start of ww2.
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a global war that separated allied powers, and axis powers, resulting on over 60 million deaths and the holocaust
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following Germany's invasion of Poland, lifted the previous arms embargo,
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a swift defeat by Nazi Germany in just 6 weeks during ww2, marking a devastating German blitzkreig
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an air campaign where the royal air force defended the UK against the Nazi luftwaffe
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froze Japanese assets, following Japan's occupation of French Indochina, cutting off over 80% of Japan's oil supply
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destroying or damaging 19 ships—including 8 battleships—and 300+ planes
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brutal forced transfer of ~72,000-78,000 American and Filipino POWs by the Imperial Japanese Army in April 1942, from Bataan to Camp O'Donnell
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a pivotal World War II naval battle, where the U.S. Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet attacking Midway Atoll
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intense, house-to-house fighting, massive aerial bombardment, and significant casualties on both sides
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the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy, France (Operation Overlord) during WWII, marking the start of Western Europe's liberation from Nazi occupation
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a crucial World War II meeting in Crimea where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (the "Big Three") planned the final defeat of Nazi Germany, decided on the postwar division of Germany into four zones, and agreed to establish the United Nations
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marking the formal, unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces, ending nearly six years of World War II in Europe
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the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy," a 9,000-pound Uranium-235 gun-type atomic bomb, over Hiroshima, Japan. it killed roughly 70,000-80,000 people
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a 10,000-pound, plutonium-based implosion weapon. Detonated at 1,650 feet with a 21-kiloton yield, it caused massive destruction across 3 square miles
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200,000 to 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks from the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring,"