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Germany invades Poland.
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Japan attack Pearl Harbor was a military strike.
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Was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the 3 month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines
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Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater.
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The U.S.A navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Armed forces of German invade the Soviet Union.
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The northern forces would throw a net across the Italian peninsula while the British army chased the Germans into it from the south.
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Was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belguim and France.
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Mass murder of 6 million jews
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Is considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II.
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a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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Was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditonal surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
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General MacArthur directed the representatives of Japan to sign the two Instruments of Surrender, one each for the Allied and Japanese governments.
