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Japanese attack naval forces stationed in Hawaii
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor Winston Churchill called Pres. Roosevelt to create the allianc
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Churchill works out war plans in the white house for three weeks with Roosevelt and his advisor. Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike first against Hitler
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The battles amongst the Atlantic lasted til mid-1943
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Raided Tokyo and other Japanese Cities
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Americans succeeded in stopping Japanese forces from entering Australia
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Chester Nimitz scout planes found the Jpanese fleet and sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack
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Germans enter Stalingrad and surrendered January 31, 1943
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107,000 allied troops land in North Africa and stayed still Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943
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After the capture of Sicily the Italian campaigned continued all the way up until 1945 til they were freed
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Invasion by the Allied forces
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Soviet troops came upon their first Nazi death camp
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German tank invasion
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Trials for Nazi war crimes that lasted til 1949
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Japan was occupied by the US troops and over 1,000 Japanese were arrested and trialed.
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The ally powers pushed through vistory in Europe in the city of Yalta
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The US soldiers needed this island for their bombers to reach Japan more easily. It was known for being the most heavily defended spot on Earth for the Axis powers and out of about 20,700 Japanese soldiers only 200 survived
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US Marines invaded Okinawa. Japanese release 1,900 kamikaze attacks
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Died before V-E Day from a stroke and died
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Soviet Army stormed Berlin
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The first test bomb took place July 16, 1945. The bomb worked and could be seen 180 miles away
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An atomic Bomb landed on Hiroshima and two days later another atomic bomb landed on Nagasaki