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The Germans began by attacking coastal targets and British shipping operating in the English Channel. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Dry docks and airfields were likewise destroyed. Most important, 2,403 sailors, soldiers and civilians were killed and about 1,000 people were wounded. -
The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army -
its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. -
an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. While the French colonies were formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies. -
Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II -
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union -
the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II -
America invaded the island. some of the bloodiest fighting in ww2. All but 200 of 21,000. -
Taking Okinawa would provide Allied forces an airbase from which bombers could strike Japan and an advanced anchorage for Allied fleets -
His physical health began declining during the later war years -
committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki