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Victory in Europe Day was the day allied forces officially won WW2. This was celebrated across the allied countries.

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Hitler killed himself in his bunker in Berlin when he knew he had lost. He had his body burned after.

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Mussolini was shot and killed in Italy. He was then hung in the streets and treated as a piñata.

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Last major offensive battle by Germany. Ended with Germany taking more losses than they could handle, making allied powers the winner.

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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. Began a two-front war on Germany.

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A series of 4 assaults by allies on Italy. Resulted in Allied victory through Italy.

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The Battle of Stalingrad was the most major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

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A German bombing offense against Britain. This attack coined the word Blitzkrieg or lightning war.

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African Campaign June 10th, 1940- May 16th 1943

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African Campaign June 10th, 1940- May 16th 1943

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These were battles fought in Africa in an attempt to take African colonies. They were fought between Allied and Axis powers, with Allied powers winning.

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100,000s of troops are trapped in Dunkirk. Miraculously they are rescued just in time to escape the German advance.

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Germany invades and takes over Poland. The allied forces react by declaring war on Germany.

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The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. They did this do to the nukes dropped on Japan.

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On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.

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On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima.

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At Okinawa, US Marines and Army went against imperial Japanese on the Okinawa island. It happened as part of a plan to invade the Ryukyu Islands. During this, Japanese pilots began using Kamikaze pilots.The Japanese wouldn't surrender, they'd rather commit suicide. This was the largest major battle of ww1 and one of the bloodiest. The allies won this battle.

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At Iwo Jima, following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite this, marines wiped out the troops capturing the island.

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The Battle of Leyte Gulf  is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history where US attacked the letye gulf island in the Philippines.

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A major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.[6][7][8] The United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. It was considered an overly stunning attack.

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The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War

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Invasion of Philippines by Japan using military force.

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On this day, Japan bombed Hawaii with a surprise attack. They attacked the naval base. This attack destroyed the majority of our navy. Over 2,000 Americans were killed during this attack. Lead to war between US and Japan.

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In response to Japan and other tensions, China battles Japan at Marco Polo bridge.

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Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations causing a battle between Japan and US.