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This caused the war to begin
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Germany, under Hitler, invades Poland in 1939
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Battle of Britain
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Germany's unsuccessful air atack on Britain; Germany's Luftwaffe failed to overcome the British Royal Air Force
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Germany's invasion of USSR
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Failed due to the size of the USSR, the nation's determination, the cold winter, and the loss of some major battles
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Normandy Invasion
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Also called D-Day (June, 6, 1944), when U.S. and British forces invaded German Occupied France on the coast of Normandy at Omaha Beach
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Pearl Harbor
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Where Japan launched a surprise attack which began war in the Pacific (Dec. 7, 1941)
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Battle of Midway
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Major battle in Pacific whereby the U.S., under General Macarthur, defeated Japan
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Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal
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Where the U.S. engaged in a series of Battles with Japan that eventually forced them out of the area
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Battle of Okinawa
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The last large-scale battle in the Pacific theater, where U.S. forces invaded; bloody battle killing at least 100,000 Japanese soldiers and 80,000 to 100,000 Japanese civilians
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Battle of Stalingrad
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A brutal, five-month battle between German and Soviet forces for the important industrial city of Stalingrad that resulted in the deaths of almost 2 million people
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Where U.S. forces took a small, but strategically important island off the Japanese coast (Feb. and March, 1945)
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