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| On June 6, 1994, 160,000 American soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy to defeat Hitler. 9,000 American casualties. |
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| Describe the Battle of the Bulge. |
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Took place from Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 25, 1945.
Almost 90,000 American casualties.
Last major Nazi offensive; attempt to split Allies in two. |
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| What did the Japanese do before the war that drastically helped their offensive, but wasn't a worry to the Allies until the war had begun? |
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| The Japanese had collected small islands in the Pacific Ocean. Among these was Iwo Jima. They dug tunnels in these islands and put guns by the entrances, and airfields on the other side. |
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| 1945- It took the Americans just over a month to take Iwo Jima, and there were over 25,000 Marines killed or wounded. |
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| First city to ever be targeted for an atomic weapon, attacks occurred near the end of the war. |
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| Last major attack on Japan in World War Two; within days the country surrendered. The bomb chosen was called 'Fat Man' and had the capacity of 20,000 tons of explosives (only weighed 10,000lbs.) |
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| The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" powers in 1945. |
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| When did Pearl Harbor get bombed by Japan? |
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