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Under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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a purge that took place in Nazi Germany
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Hitler planed to invade Poland after signing a nonaggression act after the soviet union agreed to divide Poland between them. Germany's strategy was to overwhelm Poland and to take them by surprise.
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Stalin sent nearly one million troops Finland because it didn't fall with the other cities when Stalin first sent troops.
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Hitler made a plan to move to bases in southeastern Europe and make sure the British didn't interfere.
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Due to an argument over the Lorraine-Al sac area, Germany attacks France.
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a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Winston Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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was meant to provide U.S military aid to foreign nations during World War ll.
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Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War ll.
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The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II where Nazi Germany, murdered 6 million European Jews, which was most of the Jewish population of Europe.
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Was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States base at Pearl Harbor.
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110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated into camps during World War ll. They were incarcerated based on local population and regional politics.
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The turning point of the war in the Pacific and allowed the allies to begin taking the offensive.
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An island abandoned by Japanese after fierce fighting during World War ll.
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allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.
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'Battle where Allies pushed Axis powers out of North Africa. It was between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army.
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After the Invasion of Iran, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met to discuss a strategy to open a second front against Nazi Germany.
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battle where the Americans, British, and Canadians invaded Nazi occupied France.
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Plan was to make Japan an independent state.
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom.
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the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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While on a vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Roosevelt suffers a stroke and dies.
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He was executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra.
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The Soviet union, United Kingdom, and United States gathered together to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany,to establish postwar order,peace treaty issues.and countering the effects of the war.
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an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.
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Tension after World War ll between powers in the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc.
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The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to give assistance to the needy.
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was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany.
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a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey.