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Date: August 1939

Location: Germany and Soviet Union

Countries: Germany and Soviet Union

Impact: This pact was meant to keep Britain out of the war and split Poland among Germany and the Soviet Union.

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Date: September 1939

Location: Germany and Poland

Countries: Germany, Poland.

Winner: Germany

Impact: Causes Britan and France to declare war on Germany.

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Date: May, 1940

Location: France (Ardennes)

Countries: France and Germany

Winner: Germany

Impact: Gives Germany a push at the beginning of the war, and weakens France.

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Date: Spring 1940

Location: Dunkirk, France

Countries: France and Britain and the Allied Forces

Winner: France and Britain

Impact: France and Britain rescued 850 British ships.

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Date: Summer 1940- May 1941

Location: Britain

Countries: Germany and Britain

Winner: Britain

Impact: Proved that Hitler could be stopped and gave hope to the rest of the Allied Forces.

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Date: June 1941

Location: Soviet Union

Countries: Germany, Russia

Winner: Soviet Union

Impact: Germany moves on to Moscow and Stalingrad

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Date: December 7, 1941

Location: Hawaii, USA

Countries: USA, Japan

Winner: Japan

Impact: America enters the war

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Date: June 4, 1942

Location: Midway

Countries: Japan, USA

Winner: USA

Impact: Was the turning point of the war in the Pacific

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Date: August 1942- February 1943

Location: Stalingrad

Countries: Germany, Russia

Winner: Soviet Union

Impact: Weakens Germany

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Date: August 1942- February 1943

Location: Soloman Islands

Countries: Japan, USA

Winner: USA

Impact: 24,000 dead

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Date: June 6, 1944

Location: Normandy

Countries: France, USA, Germany, Britain

Winner: the Allies

Impact: This was the biggest land and sea attack in history- led to the liberation of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

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Date: April- May, 1945

Location: France, Germany,

Countries: France, Germany, USA, Britain, Russia

Winner: Allied Forces

Impact: Causes Germany to surrender and causes Hitler to commit suicide.

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Date: February- June 1945

Location: Japan

Countries: US, Japan

Winner: USA

Impact: Extremely high casualties on both sides

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Date: August 6+9, 1945

Location: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)

Countries: USA, Japan

Winner: USA

Impact: Over 140,000 Japanese civilians were killed, not including those who died from fallout. It marked the end of WWII.