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Germany invades Poland, and World War II starts. -
Start of a 5-month plane battle between Germany and Britain. Bliz of London -
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 -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. -
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit was a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943 -
Brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. -
The Battle of the Bulge marked the last German offense on the Western Front. Germany surrendered to Allied forces. -
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
Roosevelt won reelection in 1944 but died in 1945 after his physical health seriously and steadily declined during the war years. -
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin. -
On 6 August, a Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Over the next two to four months, the effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000 to 146,000 people in Hiroshima -
Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki: 60,000 to 80,000 people killed