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May 26 - June 4

A major retreat of the British and Frances' remnant armies during the first year of WW2.

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June 28, 1940

Nazi Germanys' capture of Paris and Hitler visit during

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August 6, 1945

The 1st nuke used in WW2 by the end of war that led to Japanese surrender.

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August 9, 1945

The 2nd and last nuke used in WW2 by the end of war that led to Japanese surrender.

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The intense fire bombing of Tokyo (and many other wooden cities)

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march 10, 1945

A massive lost of Japanese civilian and infrastructure, showing the brutality of WW2.

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July 17, 1942 - Feb 2, 1943

A major battle between the Soviet and Nazi, with a Soviet victory helping push back the Nazi push.

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April 6, 1945 - May 2, 1945

During the final moments of WW2 that led to the downfall of Nazi Germany, surrounded by the Soviets and the Allies.

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Battle of Kursk (The largest tank battle in history)

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July 5, 1945 - August 23, 1943

A huge turning point between the Eastern front where the Soviet Union major victory against Nazi Germanies offensive.

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September 8-9, 1939

The trigger of WW2 and where Germanies military might with the Blitzkrieg strategy shined.

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Japanese surprise attack of Pearl Harbor

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December 9, 1941

An important event that forced America to join WW2.

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July 10, 1940 - Oct 31, 1940

A n important battle that kept Nazi Germanies invasions in mainland Europe through the strong will of the British people.

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September 18, 1931 - February 27, 1932

An event that started and showed the aggressive and militaristic imperialism of Japan.

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Germans constant attack of the Suez Canal to halt British trade with their colonies.

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June 4-7, 1942

The most important battle between the US and Japan that completely stopped Japanese navy in the Pacific.

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Bletchley Park, Sherwood Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK

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Bletchley Park, Sherwood Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK

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Bletchley Park, Sherwood Dr, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK

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1940

Breaking the "unbreakable" Enigma code by the Germans allowed the Allies to know what the Germans were communicating and helped end the war sooner.

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December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945

The final German offense against the Allies to the west, creating a Bulge.

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1940

Hitler reused the same train and symbol against Frances delegation,

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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February 1945

One of the bloodiest battle of the US Marine Corps and later used as a landing site for B-29 bomber and tactical airport.

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Battle of Okinawa, America's island hopping campaign

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March 25, 1945 - September 7, 1945

A major battle of the USA and Japanese gorilla warfare, that was estimated to have casualties up to 1 million servicemen and were an influence to why America used the atomic bomb.

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September 3, 1939

The first British ship sunk by Germany with 117 civilian and caused major controversy as a war crime.

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December 8. 1941

Many Canadians fought in the defense of Hong Kong.

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June 6, 1944

The beginning of France's liberation from Nazi occupation.

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The most notorious concentration camp built by Nazi Germany that killed many Jewish people.

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September 30, 1941 - January 7, 1942

Being a massive tuning point in the Easter front, the victory of the Soviet forces led to the doom of the Third Reich.

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July 6 - August 17 1943

The beginning of the fall of Benito Mussolini and surrender of Italy.

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May 26, 1941 – May 27, 1941

The sinking of Germanys flagship dealt a blow on moral and affected Hitler heavily on his confidence with the Atlantic war.

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May 1955 a pact as a treaty of friendship of cooperation to signed in Poland between the Soviet Union and 7 other Easter Bloc countries.

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Paris being liberated by America and Allies

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August 19, 1944

France is quickly being freed from German occupation.

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A blow to the U.K. losing an overseas colony to Imperial Japan, along with the capture of 85,000 British troops stationed.

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By October 16, 1962 nuclear missiles were discovered in Communist Cuba as retaliation for nuclear missiles bases in Turkey.

During the blockade there was an event that almost caused a nuclear war.

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June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953 between Communist and Capitalist Korea that ended with a stalemate and armistice.

The war led to a stalemate that continued to an armistice, diving Korea into a Communist North and Capitalist South to this day.

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1940 - 1970 a massive conflict and proxy war of Communism vs Capitalism where America lost.

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Angola crisis of 1974-1975 that was used as a proxy war for US and Soviet that led to a civil war.

The aftermath of imperialism and influence from the Cold War has left its marks on the country & its people.

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Lasted between 1979 - 1989 and labeled as the "Soviets Unions Vietnam" in which they lost to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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August 3, 1940 the USSR declared occupation over Lithuania.

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence in August 24, 1991 .

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February 21 - 28, 1972 President Richard Nixon visits the Peoples Republic of China to establish better relations.

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1949 the Republic of China retreats after being defeated by the Chinese Communist Party.

This continues as a political issue today on wether or not Taiwan is an independent country.

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Many nuclear bombs were detonated and experimented in America.

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From February 4-11, 1945 a meeting between world powers that determined the actions taken after the word, with a controversial action of Stalin failing to keep his promise.

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Leon Trotsky a former commissar who was sentenced to death assassinated in Mexico city in 1940 by an agent to show how powerful reach of Soviet intelligence.

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1961 America placed nuclear missiles in Turkey (Who's apart of Nato) as a threat to the Soviet Union.

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Constructed on August 13, 1961 by the Soviet Union to divide Germans to escape Soviet control.

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In April 4, 1949 NATO was established in Washington DC, an alliance between many nations against the Soviet Union.

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A proxy war between the USSR and America.

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A major proxy war between the USSR and America that led to many civil wars and over 100,000+ deaths.

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Occupation and Rehabilitation of Japan 1945 - 1952

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A photo of Douglas McArthur and the Emperor of Japan as the beginning of Japans occupation and rehabilitation from the allied nations and America re-shape the country.

This change and influence has drastically reformed Japans government to this day.

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Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan

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Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan

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Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan

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USSR first test of their nuclear bomb, beginning the arms race between them and America.

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The invasion of Egypt by the UK and France that ended in humiliation and dethronement of their titles as world powers.

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The biggest Nuclear meltdown in history due to the incompetence of USSR government.

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The official fall of USSR after the Europeans satellite states vote out Communism and Gorvechov resigns.