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Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
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The Invasion of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France.
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This air war between Britain and agermany ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against the British Western Desert Force in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War.
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On this day, the British navy sunk the German battleship the Bismarck, in the North Atlantic sea near France. The death toll of the Germans was more than 2,000 people
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Japan attcked the U.S Navy, more then 2,000 millitary and civilians were killed. This caused the U.S to declare war on the empire of Japan.
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Rabaul, the peacetime capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, fell to the Japanese on 23 January 1942. The small Australian garrison, Lark Force, was overwhelmed and most of its troops, including six army nurses, captured. Approximately 400 of the troops escaped to the mainland and another 160 were massacred at Tol Plantation.
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The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of the Second World War when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore.
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Broome in Western Australia was used as the Australian end of an air shuttle service from Java. Hundreds of evacuees were ferried to Broome in Dutch, American and Australian military and civil aircraft, including flying boats of Qantas Empire Airways. On the morning or March 3rd, without warning, Japanese fighters attacked. The attack lasted no more than 20 minutes, during which time 25 Allied aircraft were destroyed and dozens of people were killed or wounded.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The Battle of the Kokoda Trail was one of the most significant campaigns undertaken by Australians in the Pacific War of WW2.
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Operation Jubilee was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe during the Second World War.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.
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The Second Battle of El Alamein was a major battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
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Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
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The Battle of the Oder–Neisse is the German name for the initial phase of one of the last two strategic offensives conducted by the Red Army in the Campaign in Central Europe.
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Robert Menzies was Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister to date, at over eighteen years total, his second term of sixteen years being the longest continuous term ever served.
