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| late 1940; Hitler’s sending of bombers in a an unsuccessful effort to pound Britain into submission (early in war) |
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| (Stalingrad); an industrial center on the western bank of the Volga River. German, Italian, and Romanian soldiers fought their way into the city to try taking control of the Soviet Union |
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| between October 23 and November 5, 1942 – centered in North Africa, Italian and Germans going for Suez Canal; Montgomery forced Rommel (German) and Italian forces to retreat |
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| when Rommel is forced out of Africa; a German counterattack to operation TORCH |
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| Palermo was the most important city to take in the fight towards Rome |
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| the initial place that Japan, Rome, and Berlin come together |
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| somewhat defeat for Americans as they entered Italy |
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| The second wave behind Monte Cassino – split armed forces |
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| June 6th – the beginning of the invasion of Normandy and the beginning of Western Allied effort to liberate Europe from Nazi grasp |
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| operation America enters the ground war in Europe with – British and American invasion into French North Africa |
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| codename for entire campaign across northern France – allies liberate France on August 25 |
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| Hitler sent troops hoping to separate US and British forces and capturing a Belgian port; the troops ran out of fuel by the town of Bastogne and were not a serious threat |
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| on the Rhine River – huge bridge that American’s take – bridge collapse about a month after due to weight |
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| airborne assault on Amsterdam, largest airborne operation in the war |
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| city where American and Soviet troops meet to decide who will enter Berlin first – America lets Soviets enter |
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| surprise Japanese attack on Hawaii (it was thought they would attack around Southeast Asia) – 351 Japanese planes launched on December 7th – 2,403 Americans killed – “a day that will live in infamy” |
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| was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese home island of Honshu during World War II. The mission was notable since it was the only time in U.S. military history that United States Army Air Forces bombers were launched from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a combat mission. |
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| took place in the Philippines in 1942 - involving the forcible transfer of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps, was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse, murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan. |
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| first American naval victory after Pearl Harbor |
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| due to Japanese efforts to expand in the Pacific and destroy American carrier forces- they struck the island of Midway northwest of Honolulu; on June 4th, US Navy dive bombers found the Japanese fleet and sank it |
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| pacific campaigns of 1944 were the American naval version of the Blitzkrieg. Carriers controlled the air, allowing the navy and land forces to isolate and capture the most strategically located Japanese-held islands while bypassing the rest |
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| victory for American pilots in pacific – 220 Japanese planes down, only 20 American planes down |
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| the project to develop and atomic bomb under the management of the US Army Corps of Engineers |
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| city where the Battle of the Bulge is fought |
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| May 7 and May 8, 1945, the dates when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On April 30, Hitler committed suicide during the Battle for Berlin |
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| is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945, ending combat in the Second World War. |
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| was intended to capture the southern third of the southernmost main Japanese island of Kyūshū, with the recently captured island of Okinawa to be used as a staging area. |
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| General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953 |
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| leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 1943–1945. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. |
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| General that forced Italian and German forces to retreat in El Alamein |
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| took forces at Normandy – Patton wanted them |
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| Field Marshal; fought in North Africa for Suez Canal |
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| During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. |
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| was the Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Naval Forces |
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| was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II, receiving the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula |
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| naval commander in the Pacific - later he will finalize ways to deal with kamikazes |
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| Emperor of Japan during the Potsdam Declaration |
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| Japanese Prime Minister that negotiates unconditional surrender |
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| replaces MacArthur in the Philippines, took islands in the pacific between Australia and Philippines |
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| codename for one of the Allied landing beaches during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as part of Operation Overlord |
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| the Allied codename for the centre invasion landing area during the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. It lay between Omaha Beach (US forces) and Juno Beach (Canadian). |
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| the codename of one of the five main landing beaches in the initial assault phase of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. |
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| was one of the landing sites for Allied invaders on the coast of Normandy during D-Day. It was situated between Sword Beach and Gold Beach. It is also known as the Canadian beach, as it was assigned to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division |
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| code name for one of the principal landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II. |
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