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German Blitzkrieg
A German term for "lightning war", blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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Lend Lease
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
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Invasion Of France
In the six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944 over the Alps.
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London Bombed and Battle of Britain Began
On September 15, 1940 Germany launched a large bombing attack on the city of London. They felt that they were closing in on victory. The British Royal Air force took the sky and scattered the German Bombers.
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Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps
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Operation Barbossa
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
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Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday Morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes.
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Declaring War
On December 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the US was still officially neutral during World War II.
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Germany Invading Soviet Union
The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare: From August 1942 through February 1943, more than two million troops fought in close quarters, and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. But the Battle of Stalingrad ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.
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Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. .An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in.
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D-Day
On D-Day, 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Code named Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the Normandy beaches marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from German occupation.
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Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes Counteroffensive) (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
In the summer of 1944, the Soviets also overran the sites of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killing centers. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943, after most of the Jews of Poland had already been killed. The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945. Located 750 miles off the coast of Japan, the island of Iwo Jima had three airfields that could serve as a staging facility for a potential invasion of mainland Japan. American forces invaded the island on February 19, 1945, and the ensuing Battle of Iwo Jima lasted for five weeks.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender. In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective.
Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
