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Searching for raw materials, Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria.
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The agreement averted an outbreak of war but it gave Czechoslovakia to Germany. -
Hundreds of thousands refugees both Jewish and non-Jewish ran away from the German advance.
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France signed an armistice with the Germans and a puppet French state was born.
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Germany's failure to defeat the Royal Air Force and secure control of the skies above Southern England made the invasion all but impossible. -
The operation's objectives were to defeat and destroy the Soviet Union's Red Army, seize the cities of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev, overthrow the Soviet Union's communist government.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they were trying to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from intruding with its military actions in Southeast Asia. -
Japan attacked Midway to make it a base for them to attack Pearl Harbor.
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The Soviet Union inflicted a huge defeat on the German Army. -
The allied armies were able to force the axis land, air and sea divisions out of the land.
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Hitler refused his commanders freedom to give up ground gave the allies a more complete victory. -
The liberation did not just represented the end of the city's darkest hour, but the very birth of modern France.
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Taking the island was symbolic of the capture of Japan's main land.
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Taking Okinawa would provide the Allied forces with an airbase from which bombers could bomb Japan.
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Also known as Victory in Europe Day, celebrations erupted around the world to celebrate the end of WWII in Europe. -
The atomic bomb killed between 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima. -
The atomic bomb killed between 60,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. -
VJ-Day (Victory over Japan Day) is the day that Japan unconditionally surrendered.
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Nazi Germany leaders stood trial for their war crimes and the conspiracy to commit more crimes.