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The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in WWII and the only episode of the war to take place in South America.
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The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the largest Soviet city.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II
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It was the first major battle of the Pacific War,[11] and was fought between ground forces of the British Indian Army and the Empire of Japan.
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was Fought in Africa
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he Battle of Coral Sea took place in May 1942. If the Japanese had succeeded at Coral Sea, the way would have been open for the Japanese to have captured New Guinea and leave Australia
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The Battle of Midway, fought in June 1942, must be considered one of the most decisive battles of WWII
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Fought in African Deserts
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a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union.
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Kursk was to be the biggest tank battle of WWII and the battle resulted in a severe crisis for Nazi Germany’s war machine in Russia.
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Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India
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he Battle of Kohima was one of the turning points in the war in the Far East.
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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this battle was said to be the last great carrier battle of WWII.
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when the north of the city was destroyed in less than a second, and an estimated 70,000 people were killed by the bomb codenamed "Fat Man.
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a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945.
