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June 6, 1944
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D-Day
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May 8, 1945
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German Surrender
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Aug 6, 1945
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Pershima (Bomb)
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Aug 9, 1945
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Nagasoki (Bomb)
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Sept 2, 1945
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Japan surrenders
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Joseph Stalin
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Dictator Leader
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Scientist at stanford- Created Manhattan Project
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Chester Nimitz
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Commander of American Naval Forces in the Pacific
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Douglas MacArthur
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General in command of allied forces of the islands
(Army=Pacific)
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George Patton
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Best American Army General
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Erwin Rommell
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Germany's Best General
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Omar Bradley
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American General in charge of D-Day
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Allie Commander
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Albert Einstein
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Genius, Scientist, Smartest Man
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Ralph Korematsu
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Japanese American who sued the government and Lost
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Harry Truman
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Agreed to drop the atomic bomb
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Longest President
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Adolph Eichman
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Last Nazi who was prosecuted and exucuted
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Dr. Joseph Menglina
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Nazi who experimented on germans (Doctor)
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Battle of the Bulge
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Hitler's Last Attack
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D- Day
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Invasion of the nothern France
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Nuremberg Trails
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Nazi's tried for war crimes
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Yalta Conference
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Stalin, Churchill, and roosevelt, split germany during the war.
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Iwo Jima
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Most Vicious Battle, Won the most medals
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Guadalcanal
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1st land battle between Japanese and Americans
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Midway
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Turning point in the pacific American Navy
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Bataan
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Jungle owed in the philippines= Biggest American Surrender.
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Doolittle raid
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1st bombing of Tokyo
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White Sands
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New mexico was hit with the first Atomic Bomb
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Operation Marketgarden
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Failed allied attack on holland
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Anzio
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Failed in Italy=Allies failed
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St. Lo
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Small French town=Americans broke through german offensive
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Omaha Beach
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Biggest American battle during D-Day
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Coral Sea
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Land battle= Japanese and american navy used only aircraft during the war
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Hiroshima
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Dropped the bomb on the town
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Los Alamos
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Big Lab, Still does research there.....Built the atomic bomb there.
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Nagasaki
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Bombed them three days later
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Tojo
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Prime minister of japan
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GI Bill of Rights
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If you went back to college it would be free of charge
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Kamikaze
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Suicide plan attack in which japanese pilots crashed their bomb laden planes into allied ships
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Japanese Internment
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Japaneses camps
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E=Mc2
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Einstein's Theory
Energy=The speed of light squared
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Sicily Campaign
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A combined British-Canadian-American invasion of Sicily
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