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Date: August 6-9, 1945
Location: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Summary:
The firebombing of Tokyo alone killed 120,000 Japanese. A ground invasion would have resulted in nearly immeasurable more casualties.The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave Japanese leaders the excuse they needed to take the absolutely unthinkable action of surrendering. This led to the end of World War 2.

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Date: Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945
Locations: Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan
Summary:
It was the only large engagement of the war in which Allied forces suffered more casualties (dead plus wounded) than their Japanese counterparts. By 1945, the Allies were gaining ground in the Pacific theater.

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Date: Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942
Location: Midway Atoll
Summary:
Another turning point, after the Battle of the Coral Sea, was when the Imperial Navy Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and the Indian oceans, but was stopped by the Allied. The Allies was able to, for the first time, win victory against Japan.

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Date: May 4, 1942 – May 8, 1942
Locations: Pacific Ocean
Summary:
A major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval air forces of the United States and Australia.  It was the first battle over the sea in history as neither surface fleet sighted the other. Though a draw, it was an important turning point in the war in the Pacific because, for the first time, the Allies had stopped the Japanese advance.

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Date: Spring of 1945
Location: Islands in the Pacifics
Summary:
A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.  It is where forces only concentrate their resources, setting up military forces/ supplies, on strategically important islands.

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Date: April 22 - May 1945
Location: Rhine River (Germany) Berlin
Summary:
The last major battle in Europe during World War II. It resulted in the surrender of the German army and an end to Adolf Hitler's rule.

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Date: Dec. 16, 1944 - Jan. 25, 1945
Location: The Ardennes: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Summary:
The Germans attempted to launch their last major offensive attack against the Allied of Operation Mist. Their hope was to push the Allied's front line into the west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
This is known as the Ardennes Offensive, Battle of the Bulge.

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Date: June 6, 1944
Location: Normandy, France
Summary:
The landing operations (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Allied was able to storm through and breach against Germany's forced and out of France.