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The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,[1] the German–Soviet Non-aggression Pact[2][3] or the Nazi German–Soviet Pact of Aggression[4][5][6] (officially: Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics),[a] was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
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The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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The Japanese turn back a Chinese counter-offensive; the Blitzkrieg Germany invasion of France; France falls; the British Army is evacuated from Dunkirk. www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg
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The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
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The Battle of Iwo Jima 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
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On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day
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President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
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Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007724
