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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
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WWI
Also known as the War to End All Wars.
More than 9 Million soldiers killed and over 21 million wounded -
World War I Ends
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Axis Powers
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Japanese Invasion of China
China Fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , USSR and the US.
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Munich Pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived. -
Neutraility Acts
They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
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Germany's Invasion of Poland
Also know as the September Campaign.
It marked the beginning of WWII.
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Cash and Carry
Cash and carry was a policy requested by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
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German Blitzkrieg
A method of warfare whereby an attacking force. -
Aliied Powers
he main Allied powers were Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Code Name for Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Also known as Operation Hawaii.
A surprise military strike by the Japanese against US naval base. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Wannsee Conference
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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 (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipinos died. -
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Battle at Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
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Operation Gomorrah
Campaign of air raids,lasting for 8 days and 7 nights. Killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000 in Hamburg and virtually destroying most of the city. -
italian surrender
On this day in 1943, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted with Operation Axis, the Allies with Operation Avalanche. -
D-Day
Is known as the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Liberation of Cioncentration 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. -
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Battle of the Bulge
This was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. Allies won. -
Operation Thunderclap
A cancelled operation planned in August 1944.
A massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
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Battle of Iwo Jima
Was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. -
VE Day
The formal acceptance by the Allies of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Battle of Okinawa
Code named Operation Iceberg.
Was a series of battles fought in the Japanese Islands.
As a base for air operations for the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. -
Manhattan Project
the atomic bombs
