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German troops invade Poland all along its border with German-controlled territory. The German bombed Polish airfields, and used warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.
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The Germans attacked France and quickly defeated the French army. French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central.
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Lend-Lease was a thing where the U.S would lend or lease military supplies. The United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies.
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The German Luftwaffe unleashed a merciless bombing campaign against London. The raids only galvanised the will of the British people for the rest of the war.
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The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany. The seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi movement.
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. The operation came from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union
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The U.S. naval base was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy and damage Pearl Harbor.
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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.
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Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were put onto trains.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater which was only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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The act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort.
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front
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The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle is the third-most lethal American battle by estimated of 19,276 Americans were killed.
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The Soilders entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp.
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This was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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The United States detonated two nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three days later, after bombing Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
