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Japan invsdes chaina
"Chinese victory as part of the Allied victory in the Pacific War
Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland China (excluding Manchuria), Formosa and French Indochina north of 16° north to the Republic of China
China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council"
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The Holocaust
"Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.he Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II." -
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Munich conference
leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Non-aggression pact
"German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, also called Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, German-Soviet Treaty of Nonaggression, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact," -
Germany invades Poland
"The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe." -
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battle of britain
"The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe, Germans and British air forces clashed in the skies in United Kingdom" -
Lend-Lease Act
"An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States." -
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Operation Barbarissa
"Opening of the Eastern Front
Failure of the Axis to defeat the Soviet Union
Soviet victory, despite huge losses in men, materiel and landmass" -
Pearl Harbor
"The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941" -
Bataan Death March
was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on . -
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Battle of Midway
crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. -
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battle of stalingrad
"it was a big battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany. The Nazi also bomd theSoviet city of Stalingrad.Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad." -
Blitzkrieg
"A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower" -
D day
"Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control." -
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Battle of the bulge
'The battle of bulge was when germans lunched the last major offensive of the war" -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
"United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army." -
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Battle of Okinawa
"Okinawa occupied by the United States until 1972. Allied won."Okinawa is the largest of the Ryukyus islands at the southern tip of Japan. Okinawa is about 60 miles long and between 2 and 18 miles wide. Its strategic importance could not be underestimated – there were four airfields on the island that America needed to control. America also faced the problem that they had not been able to get much intelligence information about Okinawa." -
V-E Day
'Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day' -
The bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki date
'In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.' -
V-J Day
"in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered." -
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Warsaw pact
'The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. ( History .com) '
