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TIME LINE:
 * 1938: **Munich Pact**: pact made by Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain that permitted Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
 * August 1939: **Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact:** 10 year pact that stated that neither side would attack each other but this pact lasted less than 2 years.
 * July-October 1940- **Battle of Britain**: Germany Took on the Royal Air Force and Lost
 * March 11th 1941: **Lend-Lease Act**: act that provided the United States' allied forces with war materials while they still remained technically neutral
 * June-December 1941: **Operation Barbarossa**: Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union with over 4.5 million troops.
 * December 1941: **Pearl Harbor**: Japanese attack on a US naval base on Oahu, Hawaii called Pearl harbor
 * 1942: **Battle of Midway**: one of the most important naval battles where the US took out hundreds of the Japanese planes and fought to regain control over the Pacific.
 * July1942-February1943: **Stalingrad**: major battle where Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union but were forced to surrender
 * June 6, 1944: **D-Day**: US invaded Normandy France
 * April 1945: **Hitler commits suicide**
 * May 1, 1945: **Italy Surrenders**
 * May 1945: **Germany Surrenders**
 * August 1, 1945: **Nagasaki bombings**: multiple bombs were dropped on the sea port city.
 * August 6, 1945: **Hiroshima bomb**: The United States dropped a bomb on this city, killing thousands.
 * August 14, 1945: **Japan Surrender**

<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is a naval base in Hawaii. During WWII the Japanese bombed the base on December 7, 1941. This even was one of the BIGGEST turning points because it was basically the event that allowed us to declare out entry into WWII. This even sunk 4 US navy battle ships and damaged 4 more as well. It destroyed around 190 aircrafts as well as it some destroyers and also some cruisers. The attack killed many people as well as wounded some. The attack by the Japanese came in waves. The first wave was sent on December 7 with 181 planes, dive bombers, and fighters. The second wave had 170 planes and was sent half an hour after the first one. Not many people were killed in this attack but it this was the event that allowed the United States to enter the war. The Event completely changed WWII. It was basically the day that allowed the U.S. to enter the war. The Major players in this even were Japan and the U.S. because it was Japan that attacked the U.S. They goal of Japan was just to scare off the U.S. from attacking another country that they intended on attacking. They wanted to prevent the U.S. from entering the war. In reality they did the exact opposite.

<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Hiroshima Hiroshima is a city in Japan. During WWII the United States dropped a bomb on this place killing thousands of people instantly and many more shortly after due to the radiation poisoning from the bomb as well those who passed away in the rubble of the town. Those closest to the bomb died instantly and those further away first discovered the heat and then an incredible boom. Even most strong buildings were destroyed and if they did survive most of the glass was blown out of the windows. President Truman was president at the time and he made the decision to drop the bomb. At 8:15 on August 6, 1925 the bomb was dropped. The bomb was known as Little boy. Truman released a statement after the bomb was dropped that is Japan did not surrender as intended by the dropping of the bomb that they would attack. 2 days after the bomb was dropped, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. When the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima the primary goal was to show people the weapons that we had and the power we possessed to destroy other places. The U.S. showed the world the weapons that they had. The primary goal most likely was to scare the rest of the world into not using such weapons like the atomic bomb because they did great damage to entire cities and places around.

<span style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">D-Day D-Day was a huge turning point in WWII. Around mid 1944 the U.S. had started to mobilize and millions of men had been trained and were ready for battle. Together both the U.S. and Great Britain had gathered the largest number of people and supplies that were to first be used on a planned attack on Germany. June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces invaded France through the beaches of Normandy. The official commander of D-Day was General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On D-Day itself, the U.S. had around 6,600 causalities, Great Britain had around 3,700, and Germany had lost between 4,000 and 9,000 men. The original plan was to invade the peaches and basically link them and drive the enemy inward but that failed. By July the Allied Powers had started to go into Normandy and surrounded most of the German Army that was in Normandy. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The U.S., Great Britain, and Germany were the major countries that were involved in this event. The primary goal of D-Day or the general concept was to invade Europe. It changed the war because it allowed the U.S. and Great Britain to become more involved in the actual war by being in Europe. We were able invade France and capture many people and other things.

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