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The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. -
On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise air attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Japanese forces also overran Allied possessions -
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. -
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
March 26, 1945. Iwo Jima is declared secure after heavy casualties, with nearly 6,900 Americans and 20,000 Japanese killed. -
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare, conducted by the United States on August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II. The uranium-fueled "Little Boy" bomb detonated over the city, killing tens of thousands immediately and leading to many more deaths from severe burns, blast injuries, and radiation poisoning -
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place on August 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man," on the Japanese port city. It was the second and final use of a nuclear weapon in warfare