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This was a battle between Britain's Royal Air Force and Nazi Germany's Air Force, Luftwaffe. This was the first battle in history fought solely in the air.
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This was the Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor, located near Honolulu, Hawaii. This was the push that caused America to join WWII.
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This was a Naval battle between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that happened six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese navy hoped to neutralize America as a naval power, but failed with the victory of the U.S. navy. This battle turned the tide of WWII in the Pacific.
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Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during WWII.
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This was a Program that was established to help protect culturural property in war areas during and after WWII.
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This was a battle that happened in the Soviet city of Kursk on western Russia. This battle was Germany's last chance to regain dominance on the Eastern Front during WWII and would be their final blitzkrieg offensive.
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The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. The battle started on June 6th, also known as D-Day
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The Battle of the Bulge in Belgium was Adolf Hitler's last major offensive in WWII against the Western Front. Hitler's aim was to split the Allies in their drive towards Germany. The German troops' failure to divide Britain, France, and America paved the way to victory for the allies.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was an epic military campaign between U.S Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan in early 1945.
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This was the last major battle of WWII, and it was one of the bloodiest. The invasion was part of Operation iceberg, a complex plan to invade and occupy the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. Though it resulted in an Allied victory, kamikaze fighters, rainy weather and fierce fighting on land, sea, and air led to a large death toll on both sides.
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Roosevelt's health was in decline as FDR prepared in1944 for both a fourth run at the presidency and the aftermath of WWII. In April 1945, while sitting for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Hitler had retreated to his bunker on January 16th, after deciding to remain in Berlin for the last great siege of the war. Warned by the officers that the Russians were only a day or so away from overtaking the Chancellery, he opted for suicide. Both he and his wife took cyanide capsules and he shot himself in the head for good measure.
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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the first ever time that an atomic bomb had been deployed. The explosion immediately killed and estimated 80,000 people. tens of thousands more would die from radiation exposure.
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Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, a second bomb was deployed over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.