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May 27th, 1940
More than 338,000 allied soldiers were evacuated during the second world war from the beaches and harbour of DunKirk, in the North of France.

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Sept 1940 - May 1941
there was an aerial bombing campaign conducted by the LuftWaffe against British cities.

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Sep 1939 - 1945
the struggle between the Allied and German forces for control of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Jun 1940 - Feb 1943
the desert war took place in the deserts of egypt and libya and was the main theatre in the North African Campaign of the second world war.

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Dec, 1941
290 Canadian soldiers were killed and another 493 were wounded, there was 1,685 surviving soldiers that were taken as prisoners of the war.

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Dec 7th, 1941
it was a surprised aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii.

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Aug 19th, 1942
it took place in the morning, the forces attached at five different points on a front roughly 16 kilometres long. four simultaneous flank attacks were to go in just before dawn, followed half an hour later by the main attacks on its own town of dieppe itself.

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Jul 1943 - May, 1945
fifty-eight Canadians drowned and 500 vehicles and a number of guns were lost.

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Fall, 1944
more than 7.600 canadians died in the eight-month campaign to liberate the netherlands.

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Aug 6 - Aug 9th, 1945
the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki, respectively.