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For operation barbarossa their campaing againts the soviet union, the germans assembled the largest invasion force in history, totaling almost 150 divisions(or about 3M men) 3,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery and 2,500 aircraf
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An american destroyer ,explode during the japanese raid on pearl harbor
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After a rapid advance across toward British- held egypt, a German offensive was halted at el-alemein during the summer 1942. By mid october, a british counteroffensive began to push the germans back. In november, operation torch, an allied amphibious invasion landed on the coast of morocco and algiers. By May 1943, all North Africa was in Allied control.
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The Japanese continued their occupation of China until the end of WW2
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The Allied invasion of northern France U.S troops leave landing craft and wade ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944
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Intensive attacks using incendiaries were made against the Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, but the deffenders were so well dug into the island caves that the bombing raids produced little effect.
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In mid-December 1944, a German counteroffensive halted the allied drive toward the German frontier at the rhine river, resulting in the so called battle of the bulge. By mid-January 1945, the Germans had been forced to withdraw, and the allies continued their advance toward the rhine, which they crossed in march.
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The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima killed 70,000 people immediately by the end of 1945 an additional 30,000 had died
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Austrian SS chief Ernst Kaltenbunner oversaw the Nazi consentration camps throughout Europe. Captured by a U.S patrol shortly after the German surrender, he was indicted on August 29, 1945 by the international military tribunal at Nuremberg on charges or war crimes. here Katelbunner is shown addresing the court during his trial. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed on October 16, 1946
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The combination of the threat of further U.S attacks with atomic weapons, toguether with the soviet unions declaration of war against Japan on August 8, caused the Japansese to surrender.