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April 18 with a daring raid on tokyo and other japanese cities
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Germans fought for 4 weeks in hand-to-hand combat conquering Stalingrad. By the end of Sept. they controlled 9/10 of the city
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Dec.7,1941 Japanese dive-bomber swooped low over pearl harbor the largest U.S. naval base in the pacific
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Two days after Pearl Harbor President Roosevelt invited Churchill to a conference
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Churchill and Roosevelt spent 3 weeks working out plans for the war. Churchill convinced Roosevelt to strike against Hitler first
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Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along the America’s east coast
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Was critical to the U.S. as a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach japan.
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In may 1942 They succeeded in stopping the Japane
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June 1942 was a turning point for the pacific war because allies began island hoping
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Italian Campaign captured wanted the absolute surrender of the Axis power
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Allied Powers attacked Normandy
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Soviets entered the camp Majdanek in Poland and found thousands of starving prisoners, the world’s largest crematorium, and a storehouse containing 800,000 shoes.
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Near Malmedy German troops faced huge loses to American and British forces. They lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks, 1600 planes in the battle
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In February4th-11th 1945 US. represented by fdr Great britain is represented by winston churchill and Josef Stalin was there on the Soviet uniion behalf. THe goal of this conference was to discuss many aspects of the time. Among them were: The dividing of Germany 2. The formation of the united nations 3. German war reparations The entry of Soviet forces into the Far-Eastern front (Japan) 4. Thefinal, and most difficult issue, the future of poland
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n the early years of the occupation,more than 1,100 Japanese, from former Prime MInister Hideki tojo to lowly prison guards.
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April 1945 U.S. marines invaded okinawa
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Roosevelt died of a stroke.
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Allies celebrate V-E day. The war in Europe was over
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In July 16th, 1945 the first test of the new bomb place in the morning
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August 6, Enola Gay Atomic bomb was dropped. Hiroshima all the buildings collapsed into dust from the force of the blast. 3days later the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki leveling half the city
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November 20th 1945 Hitlers most trust party officials, government ministers.military leaders, and powerful industrialists were charged