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Communists were loosing the war between communists and nationalists so about 100,000 communists fled to the north.
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This marked the beginning of the war. Germany had started the second World War.
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This marked the first attack on US soil. This was a major reason we got involved in the war, and the day will forever live in infamy.
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Hitler was dead, and this was almost the end of the war. The fall of Germany was a great Allie success, and it was made possible by the combined force of France, Britain, the US, and Russia,
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This was a major display of US power. The atomic bomb helped strengthen our worldwide position and prove we were a superpower. It also ended the war against Japan. More then 500,000 lives were lost from one of these bombs.
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This was a new organization made to prevent another world war from happening. It is a major improvement over the League of Nations, though it still does not have much power.
