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1939 September 1 - Germany invades Poland. World War II begins. 1939 September 3 - France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. 1940 April 9 to June 9 - Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway. 1940 May 10 to June 22 - Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France. 1940 May 30 - Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government. 1940 June 10 - Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers. 1940 July 10 - Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain. 1940 September 22 - Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance. 1941 June 22 - Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops. 1941 December 7 - The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies. 1942 June 4 - The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. 1942 July 10 - The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily. 1943 September 3 - Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy. 1944 June 6 - D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans. 1944 August 25 - Paris is liberated from German control. 1944 December 16 - The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army. 1945 February 19 - US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island. 1945 April 12 - US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman. 1945 March 22 - The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River. 1945 April 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war. 1945 May 7 - Germany surrenders to the Allies. 1945 August 6 - The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated. 1945 August 9 - Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 1945 September 2 - Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.

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The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944.

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Greatest Tank Battles The Battle of Kursk Northern Front

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Greatest Tank Battles The Battle of Arracourt

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Greatest Tank Battles The Battle of El Alamein

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Greatest Tank Battles Pacific Tank Battles

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Greatest Tank Battles Candian Tank Battles

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Greatest Tank Battles The Battle of Normandy

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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union.

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The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 -- 2 February 1943)was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.

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was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the and played a prominent role

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Life and Times of General Douglas MacArthur

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This documentary from "The Big Picture" series highlights the remarkable military story of General Douglas MacArthur who was awarded the Medal of Honor and one of the select few to reach the 5 star rank.. His career during World War II in the Pacific theater is the primary focus. U.S.

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During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb."

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the US funded its World War II effort largely by raising taxes and tapping into Americans' personal savings. Americans purchased approximately $186 billion worth of war bonds,

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Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II. representing to strong women in war.

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refers to the men and women, African-Americans and Caucasians, who were involved in the so-called, the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft.

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10.Map Of The fight in the pacific theater world war 2

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10.Map Of The fight in the pacific theater world war 2

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was a major theater of the war between the Allies and Japan. included most of  Pacific Ocean and its islands, as were the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo,Australia.

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a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland with the Soviet Union conquering much of Europe along with the German Unconditional .

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Roosevelt insisted that people in all nations of world shared Americans' entitlement to four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way.

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Cash and carry was a policy requested by US President Franklin Roosevelt at a special session of US Congress 1939, Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S.

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2.Map That Illustrates The Axis And Allied Power                                       fought from 1939 to 1945 mainly between the Allies comprising of Great Britain, France, the USA on one side and the three Axis Powers of Germany, Japan and Italy other.

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2.Map That Illustrates The Axis And Allied Power                                       fought from 1939 to 1945 mainly between the Allies comprising of Great Britain, France, the USA on one side and the three Axis Powers of Germany, Japan and Italy other.

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Harry believed that the atomic bombs saved Japanese lives as well as the U.S. as well. The decision he made will never be officially resolved to why he dropped them.

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Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack bombing by the Japanese which was located in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Its significant because it ignited the U.S. into World War

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This is a small documentary which describes the day on which the Pearl harbor attack was launched in world war 2

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Charles Lindbergh was most famously known to be the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic ocean nonstop. He was a famous aviator which was very big back in WW2.

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The Dawes Plan was a big process to "repair" the problems that Germany had started in World War 1, it also helped to make the U.S. and Germany economy's better.

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Stalingrad was the biggest defeat of the German army. This fight took place on 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943. Germany fought the soviet union for total control over Stalingrad.

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The Navajo Code Talkers created a language that enemies could not understand so if hacked, into they would still have the advantages in the war. They were the "secret weapons".

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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of world war II.The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power.The Japanese hoped another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the pacific war.

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This is part from WWII in colour series. This one deals with the Battle Of Midway. All footige is in colour and in good quality.

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The Potsdam Conference, The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in  Potsdam,Germany, negotiate terms for the end of World War II.

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The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixtytwo percent of the internees were United States citizens.

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This Was Life for Japanese-Americans During WWII

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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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The Battle of Iwo Jima from Clint Eastwood's two movies "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of our Fathers". A combination of both views together.

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In this disturbing picture German civilians are being forced by the allies to barring Jew prisoners killed at Nordhausen concentration camps these Jews where subjected to harsh treatment by Nazis

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Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops where forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camp they marched in intense heat and where subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese.

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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II.The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the Western Front, and they were largely unable to replace them.

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American newsreel on Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945.

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The attack on Pearl Harbor, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

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The Bracero Program was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico.

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The United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known under the  WAVES for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, was theWorld War II women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve.Waves

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Ortega prize –winning nonstop flight from long Island, New York to Paris.

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It is a talk on national security, because the nub of the whole purpose of your President is to keep you now, and your children later, and your grandchildren much later, and all of the things that American independence means to you and to me and to ours.

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US President Franklin Roosevelt's "Great Arsenal of Democracy" speech. HD Stock Footage