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Japan invaded China to initiate war in the pacific. this ensured Japan as a trustworthy and powerful ally to Germany and Italy.
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Japan takes over the capital city of japan and the chinese government flees further inland to hankow.
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the Nazis advanced into Poland and swept the country in pure havoc to set the fire to WW2. invading Poland showed the world what Hitler and his army were truly capable of
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aliies naval blockade of germany and germanys counter blockade.
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german forces invade and conqueor Paris.
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Hitler sent a massive invasion east bound into the Soviet Union.
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The Japanese sent a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu.
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Nazi officials met to discuss the final decision of the jews and hw to rid them in Germany.
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day after surrender of the phillipine island Luzcon to japan and 75000 filipino and american troops were captured.
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between june 4-7 US naval ships and Japanese ships were engaged in one of the most intense naval battle of the war and the US inflicted permanent damage on the japanese navy.
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british prevented the second advance of axis forces into egypt.
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the germans were stopped by the soviet union from further invasion into the soviet union making a major turning point in the war in favor of the allies.
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surprise attack by US marines to take over a airbase that was under construction and forced the Japanese to withdraw from Guadalcanal.
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a secret meeting with algiers planned by a american diplomat stationed in north africa.
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it was a revolt in the jewish camps and ghettos against the germans.
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the day that mussolini began to talk peace with the allied powers.
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a series of 13 trials to bring justice to the nazi war criminals held in Nuremberg Germany.
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series of assaults by the allies against the winter line in Italy held by the axis.
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in the summer of 1944 allies started to liberate jews from nazi concentration camps.
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Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy in hopes of driving the German forces back and into submission.
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it was a plan take over dutch town Arnagm it fails as thousands of british and polish troops are wounded.
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Germans launched the last major defensive attack of the war.
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defended by 23000 Japanse but the US marines overcame and wiped out all the Jap forces.
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the last and most specific battle in the pacific in ww2 and included 287,000 US troops and 131,000 Japanese troops.
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Day the US and britain celebrated the surrender of Germany.
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the last ww2 meeting between the big three talked about on what they should do to german war criminals, economy, reparations, etc.
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the US was the first and only nation to use atomic bombs during wartime when they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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the day that Japan surrendered.
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japanese soliders finally laid down their arms after a bomb attack by US troops.