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Blitzkrieg
Occurred on September 1, 1939. German military tactic to create chaos among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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Invasion of France
The German forces defeated the Allied forces with mobile operations and they conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, this brought land operations to a halt.
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Bombing of London
The Luftwaffe bombed London other major Britain cities. However this act only made Britain stronger than they already were.
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Lend Lease
The United States gave Britain war supplies and old naval warships in return for military bases in Bermuda and the Caribbean.
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Invasion of the Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union defeated Germany at Stalingrad, marking the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe.
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Operation Barbarossa
Three army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles.
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Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor for various reasons including that japan was expanding their territory and The U.S. had stopped exporting oil to Japan.
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Declaration of War
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. The United States declared war on Japan and Germany.
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Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65 mile march to prison camps.
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Battle of Midway
The United States was victorious over Japan in the Battle of Midway. This victory was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers.
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D-Day
American and other Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day to begin the liberation of Western Europe.
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Battle of Bulge
The German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. The battle that ensued is known historically as the Battle of the Bulge.
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations.
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in 1945, forcing Japan to surrender and ending World War II.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
