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The Invasion of Poland
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. -
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The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
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The bombing of pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II. -
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The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway had been a decisive American victory. As a result of the battle, the United States had crippled Japan's ability to launch further large-scale mobile strikes against Allied forces. -
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The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal World War II battle that took place in the city of Stalingrad. The Soviet Union defeated the German army in this battle, which was one of the bloodiest in history. -
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch was a joint British and American amphibious invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 during World War II, marking the first major Allied offensive against Axis forces in the region and aiming to open a second front by drawing German attention away from the Eastern Front towards North Africa. -
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Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit was a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
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The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare. -
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D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II, taking place in the Ardennes Forest region of Belgium and Luxembourg. it was named "The Bulge" because the German attack created a bulge in the Allied lines on the map, and despite initial success, the German offensive was ultimately defeated by the Allied forces, primarily American troops, at great cost. -
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The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. -
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa was a major World War II battle fought on the island of Okinawa, and japan, where American forces invaded and fought against heavily entrenched Japanese troops, resulting in one of the bloodiest and most costly battles in the Pacific theater, marked by large-scale kamikaze attacks and high casualties on both sides. -
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The Death of FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to have served more than two terms. -
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. -
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Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
During World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
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Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and they remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.