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Germany invades Poland officially starting WWII
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Germany invades France and defeats them in just 6 weeks.
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British and German forces battled in the skies above Britain with the British ultimately winning and preventing a ground invasion.
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In June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union to try and annihilate communists and Soviet Jews. By early December they reached Moscow however on December sixth the Soviets launched a massive counter attack driving the Germans away from Moscow.
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On December seventh 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy in Hawaii.
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In 1942 F.D.R signed executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the west coast and be put in internment camps
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After the battle of Bataan in which Japanese forces starved out American and Philippino troops after which they made them march 65 miles to a prison camp.
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In June of 1944 the allied forces landed at Normandy and by August had made it to the Seine and liberated Paris
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Due to the need for a base near Japan in February 1945 the United States invaded Iwo Jima and a month later won it from Japan.
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Beginning in 1941 the Manhattan Project was a secret operation to create a nuclear bomb. In July of 1945 the first bomb was tested before later that year two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan forcing their surrender
