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The ending of the "Great War" set the foundation for World War 2
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The well-known genocide event caused by Hitler and the Nazis, the Holocaust ended the lives of six million European Jews.
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German forces bombarded Poland, in order to regain lost German land, and rule over Poland.
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Also known as the "Winter War", the result was Finland gave land to the Soviet Union.
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The beginning of the Battle of France, the German armies began their invasion of France.
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Prime Minister Chamberlain was replaced by Winston Churchill because of Chamberlain lost to Hiitler.
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With France leaving Britain to fight World War 2 alone, the Battle of Britain was the first all-air battle is history. "The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin."- Wiston Churchill, 1940
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Beginning with the Italian invasion of Greece, Germany went to aid Italy while Britain landed with troops.
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Military aid was sent to Britain after Congress authorized the sale of weapons and supplies to help defend America by defending Britain.
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Code-named "Operation Barbarossa", Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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In a surprise attack by the Japanese, the United States suffered a major blow as it lost it's naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor.
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Any person with Japanese ancestry were placed in camps during WW2
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The Battle of Midway was decisive naval battle that was located in the Pacific Theater.
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Also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, and was code-named Operation Watchtower
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Major battle of WW2, Germany and allies fought Soviet Union for the city of Stalingrad
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One of the many battles during World War Two. A German General was nicknamed The Desert Fox.
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The strategy meeting between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. It was held for four days.
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The day that the Allies began to take Europe back from the Axis powers.
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Meeting held to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in the small town of Warm Springs, GA.
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The Italian Fascist Dictator was assassinated in the final days of the Second World War.
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Hitler died in a bunker along with his wife.
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A conference between the Soviet Union, United Kingdoms, and United States, and was held at Cecilienhof.
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The United States, in order to end World War 2, dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima, and another on Nagasaki
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The reconstruction of Japan, and the first time the country had been under foreign rule.
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26 nations send representatives to Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations
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Nuremberg, Germany, was used for trials of Nazi criminals.
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The war between the US and USSR, with the threat of atomic war on the horizon.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe, U.S. gave $13 billion economic support.
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First major international crises of the Cold War.
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A guarded concrete barrier constructed by the Soviet Union to keep Socialist parties from entering Eastern Germany.
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13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
