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This marked the start of the second sino japanase war.
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Hitler established total dictatorial control over Germany between 1933 and 1934 by dismantling democratic institutions, using the "Reichstag Fire Decree" to eliminate civil liberties and the "Enabling Act" to bypass parliament
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the annexation of Austria Germany where the German troops crossed the border.
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This was a joint attack on the republic of Poland by Nazi Germany.
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The conflict began with Germany's invasion of Poland and concluded with the formal surrender of Japan aboard the USS Missouri.
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the Neutrality Act of 1939 repealed the 1930s arms embargo, allowing belligerent nations to purchase U.S. weapons through "cash-and-carry"
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries and France.
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The Battle of Britain was 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 against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force.
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The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The United States imposed a total oil embargo on Japan—freezing all assets and stopping nearly 88% of its imported oil.
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The Empire of Japan launched a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
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This was a decisive U.S. naval victory against Japan, turning the tide of World War II in the Pacific.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked.
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the massive allied invasion of normady France during WWII.
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The Yalta Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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this marks the formal, unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, ending World War II in Europe after nearly six years of conflict.
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the United States dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," on Hiroshima, Japan, from the B-29 bomber Enola Gay.
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the United States dropped a plutonium-based implosion-type atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, from the B-29 bomber Bockscar.
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This was a main soviet led warsaw pact invasion of czechoslovakia which ended the "Prague spring".