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Persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland
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the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft; Helsinki was bombed.
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German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
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Winston Churchill, replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister
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Luftwaffle (German air force) began bombing Britain (1940)
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the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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Adolf Hitler gave the order for German forces, backed by Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis allies - to invade Yugoslavia and Greece
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Making sure that the German attack would catch the Soviets by surprise on
a tactical, operational and even strategic level was one of the most import-
ant components of planning the blitzkrieg -
U.S cuts off oil of Japan, Japan launch a surprised attack on us naval base (Pearl Harbor)
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Military areas for people that are a potential threat
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United States navy, defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy
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operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces
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Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returned to battle from illness and tried to halt the tide, but the British advantage in personnel and artillery proved too overwhelming.
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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran.
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Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control
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Meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies
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After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed
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consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol
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was the last of the World War II meetings, American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
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American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state
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rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
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international peacekeeping organization and a forum for resolving conflicts between nations
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice
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channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe
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In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city
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the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic, began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin
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United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict
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