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In the early 20th century the city became a major shipbuilding centre; it was this industry that led to Nagasaki's being chosen as a target for the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the United States in World War II.

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On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

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Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940.

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The Normandy invasion began to turn the tide against the Nazis. A significant psychological blow, it also prevented Hitler from sending troops from France to build up his Eastern Front against the advancing Soviets.

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The Midway Berrimah, Stuart Highway, Berrimah NT, Australia

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The Midway Berrimah, Stuart Highway, Berrimah NT, Australia

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The Midway Berrimah, Stuart Highway, Berrimah NT, Australia

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The Battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point of the military

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Often overshadowed by the Battle of Midway, the hard-fought carrier naval battle in May 1942 in the waters of the Coral Sea north of Australia marked the end of the phase of Japanese triumphs in the Pacific War and proved to be of strategic significance.

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Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

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El-Alamein, Al Alameen City, El Alamein, Egypt

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El-Alamein, Al Alameen City, El Alamein, Egypt

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El-Alamein, Al Alameen City, El Alamein, Egypt

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El Alamein was the first clear-cut and irreversible victory inflicted by the British Army upon the Axis. Coming after years of frustrating setbacks, this was a boost to British morale.

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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This led to the US declaring war on Japan.

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Hitler had long considered Leningrad a key objective in the invasion. It served as the home base of Russia's Baltic Fleet.

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Despite the fact that Egypt did not officially declare war on Germany, the Egyptian state supported the British. The British were pushed back to Cairo by the Germans.

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London was central to the British war effort. It was the favorite target of the Luftwaffe

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The evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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Germany invaded Paris and took control of it in 1940.

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France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II.

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An array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s.

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Hitler invaded Poland on 1939. They lost over 5 million citizens as a result.

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Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Ethiopia then joined the British for resistance groups against Italy.

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Hitler invaded the entirety of Czechoslovakia after breaking a treaty with Britain. The country proivided many resources for 7 years during the war.

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Nazi Germany annexed Austria in an event called the Anschuss in 1939. This broke the treaty of Versailles & showed Hitler's ambition to unite German speaking people.