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the holocaust wa a genocide in which 6 million European jewswere killed by adolf hitlers Nazis
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On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
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During Joseph Stalin's rule, Soviet propaganda painted Finland's leadership as a "vicious and reactionary Fascist clique".
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germay attacked in the west. they thought that Germany would attack though Belgium like they had in WWI.
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In 1940 Winston Churchill led Britain at a time of immense crisis
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the battle of Britain was a military campaign of the second world war. the roya air force defended the united kingdom against the german air force
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the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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On 20 May 1941, German paratroopers were dropped over the airfields of northern Crete to occupy the island.
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941
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the attack was a surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese navy air service against the u.s naval base at pearl harbor Hawaii
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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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codenamed Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces
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Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was 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 in Southern Russia
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the Tehran conference was a strategy meeting of joseph stalin, franklin d Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill
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On June 6, 1944, the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history.
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. Wikipedia
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the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
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political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945
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Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
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The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild
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one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union