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the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II, a pivotal event in the liberation of Western Europe. -
a pivotal naval engagement in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, -
a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom
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the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the U.S. -
a brutal and protracted urban conflict fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany
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the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.
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an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
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a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas -
a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia
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the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II,
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a major World War II battle fought on the island of Okinawa
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a brutal 36-day battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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died of a cerebral hemorrhage. -
suicide