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COURSE OF WORLD WAR II EUROPEAN THEATRE PACIFIC THEATRE

MAJOR EVENTS POLAND INVADED STARTS WORLD WAR II, SEPT 1939 FRANCE FALLS, JUNE 1940 MAGINOT LINE FAILS LEAVES ONLY BRITAIN TO FIGHT MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK-ALLIED ARMY ESCAPES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY

MAJOR EVENTS BATTLE OF BRITAIN JULY, 1940 GERMAN AIR WAR AGAINST BRITAIN WINSTON CHURCHILL LEADS BRITAIN ROYAL AIR FORCE SAVES DAY

MAJOR EVENTS GERMANS ATTACK RUSSIA BIG MISTAKE JUNE, 1941 BIG MISTAKE TURNING POINT OF WAR IN EUROPE –STALINGRAD, FEB. 2, 1943

MAJOR EVENTS AFRICAN CAMPAIGN OPERATION TORCH LED BY EISENHOWER REMOVE AXIS FROM AFRICA EL ALAMEIN, JULY 1942 TURNING POINT IN AFRICA ROMMEL V. PATTON

MAJOR EVENTS SICILY AND ITALY NEXT SOFT UNDERBELLY OF AXIS

MAJOR EVENTS D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 ALLIED INVASION OF OCCUPIED FRANCE AT NORMANDY GREATEST AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT IN HISTORY LED BY EISENHOWER OPERATION OVERLORD

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MAJOR EVENTS BATTLE OF THE BULGE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE OF WAR

V-E DAY VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE GERMANY UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDERS MAY 8, 1945

THE BIG THREE ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL, AND STALIN MET TO PLAN WAR CASABLANCA ATTACK SOFT UNDERBELLY OF ITALY TEHRAN CONFERENCE GERMANY WOULD BE BROKEN UP AFTER WAR USSR WOULD ATTACK JAPAN UNITED NATIONS TO BE CREATED YALTA CONFERENCE AGREED TO DIVIDE GERMANY AND BERLIN INTO FOUR BEGINNING OF USSR-US CONFLICT

BIG THREE CHANGE POTSDAM CONFERENCE ROOSEVELT DIED;REPLACED BY TRUMAN CHURCHILL LOSES ELECTION; REPLACED BY ATLEE OCCURS AFTER WAR IN EUROPE NO REPARATIONS TRUMAN LEARNS OF BOMB

WAR IN THE PACIFIC BEGAN WITH PEARL HARBOR MIDWAY TURNING POINT OF WAR IN PACIFIC JUNE, 1942

WAR IN THE PACIFIC ISLAND HOPPING IWO JIMA PHILIPINES OKINAWA TAKING ISLAND BY ISLAND TO JAPAN CONFRONTED KAMIKAZES IWO JIMA PHILIPINES OKINAWA

MANHATTAN PROJECT ATTEMPT TO BEAT THE GERMANS TO NUCLEAR POWER HEADED BY ROBERT OPPENHEIMER LEAD TO PRODUCTION OF FIRST TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS: FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI PRESIDENT TRUMAN DECIDES TO USE THE BOMBS AUGUST 6-HIROSHIMA AUGUST 9- NAGASAKI JAPAN SURRENDERS

V-J DAY VICTORY OVER JAPAN MACARTHUR ACCEPTS SURRENDER

PEOPLE OF THE WAR

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDER OVERSEES/PLANS D-DAY

GENERAL GEORGE PATTON AMERICAN GENERAL NOTED FOR TEMPER TANK COMMANDER SLAPPING WOUNDED SOLDIER TANK COMMANDER AFRICA

ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ VICTOR AT MIDWAY LEADER OF NAVY IN PACIFIC

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR GENERAL OF ARMY IN PACIFIC VOWED “I SHALL RETURN” WHEN LEFT PHILIPPINES ALLIED LEADER OF JAPAN AFTER SURRENDER.