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Dunkirk

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  • was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France
  • amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies
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Charles de Gualle

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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II

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Operation sea lion

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was Nazi Germany’s code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War

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Luftwaffe

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A German word meaning air weapon, used for the German airforce

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Winston Churchill

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  • He led Britain to victory
  • was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
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The blitz

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  • was a German bombing campaign against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
  • nighttime bombing raids against London and other British cities by Nazi Germany during World War 2
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Radar

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  • radio detecting and ranging - was one of the most important factors in the success of Britain’s air defences during the Battle of Britain. *Radar could be used to detect and locate incoming enemy aircraft.
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Allied powers

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Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (later the USA )

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Axis power

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Germany,Italy and Japan

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Battle of the Atlantic

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  • The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle of World War II
  • it began immediately upon the British Declaration of war against Germany September 1939 and ended with Germany surrender to the allies
  • During World War II both the Allies and the Axis Powers fought for control of the Atlantic Ocean. The Allies wanted to use the Atlantic to resupply Great Britain and the Soviet Union in their fight against Germany and Italy.
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Isolationism

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*a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

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Cash and carry program

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Cash and carry was a policy by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939, subsequent to the outbreak of war in Europe. … The “Cash and Carry” revision allowed the purchase of military arms to belligerents on the same cash-and-carry basis.

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Lend lease program

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  • The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  • the usa could lend or lease arms or other supplies to any country
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Operation Barbarossa

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Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II

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Red army

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was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Battle of Leningrad

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  • German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad, initiating a siege that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800000 civilians.
  • also known as the 900-Day Siege though it lasted a grueling 872 days, resulted in the deaths of some one million of the city’s civilians and Red Army defenders.
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Battle of Stalingrad

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  • was one of the largest and deadliest battles in World War II. It was a turning point in the war. After losing the battle, the German army lost so many soldiers and took such a defeat that they never quite recovered.
  • when German troops tried to take control of the city. Stalingrad was felt to be an important city in Germany’s effort to take control of the south of Russia and the oilfields in that region.Jun 28, 2018
  • fought for control over the Russian oil fields
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Battle of Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval …

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Uss Arizona

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  • The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii,
  • battleship that sank during the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor,
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Philippine islands

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DescriptionThe Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American

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Douglas MacArthur

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Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

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James Doolittle (raid)

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  • A U.S. Army general best known for leading the famous “Doolittle Raid” in 1942, in which B-25 bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan and then crash-landed in China
  • the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
  • surprise attack on Tokyo, Japan, by U.S. bombers during World War II.
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Total war

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Everything/everybody involved in war effort

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Victory garden

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People grew food for the war

Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort

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Rosie the riveter

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  • representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.
  • to honor working women of World War II and to recognize and preserve the history and legacy of working women.
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Battle of the coral sea

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  • was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
  • the US fleet stops the invasion of Australia
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Battle of midway (Hawaii)

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the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II
*US defeats the Japanese and stops their planned invasion of Hawaii (pacific )

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Island hopping

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  • a military strategy used ww2 that involved selectively attacking specific enemy -held island and bypassing others
  • purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attack’s japan
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Battle of Guadalcanal

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*It was the first major island taken from the Japanese
* island of Death
*The Battle of Guadalcanal was a major battle between the United States and Japan in World War II.
between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific.(allied victory)

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Rationing books

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It helped Britain make sure that they have enough food to survive the war

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War bonds

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Loans given to the government-finance the war

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Heinrich himmler

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Head of ss(black shirts) were in charge of the Holocaust

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The Holocaust

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The systematic mass slaughter of the Jews and other undesirable

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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile death squads that killed over 500,000 innocent people with machine gun

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Ghettos

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Jews rounded up in cities Poland and put behind barbed wire and forced to work with little food! Starve to death.

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Holding Tanks

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Shipped to death camps

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Death Camps/Gas Chambers

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Jews gassed in showers and cremated in ovens

An Enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of poisonous gas

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Corrie TenRoom

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Dutch Christian who hid Jews“hiding place”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German protestant pastor who gave his life-“the cost of discipleship”

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Oskar Schindler

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Businessman who gave his life saving Jews-“Schindler’s List”

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Anne Frank

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Jewish girl who wrote a dairy, “Diary of Ann Frank”

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Israel

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Formed after the War as repayment to the Jews for the Holocaust

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POWCamp

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Used slave labor to help the German War effort-(factories , mines, etc) many worked to death! Mostly in Germany

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Dachan

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Food company

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Death camp

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Used to extermine people

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Auschwitz

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  • detention center for political prisoners.
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Work camp

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Used Slave labor to help the German war effort-(factories,mines, etc) many worked to death

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Navaho

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Code talkers -secret code

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Kamikaze

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a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

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lwo jima

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Usa takes the first Japanese home Island
Two of the bloodiest battle in the pacific

Japanese fight to the death

A bloody and American marines landed and defeated Japanese defeat

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Harry Truman

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Became president when FDR died, gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

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Robert Oppenheimer

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United States physicist who directed the project at los alamos and developed the first atomic bomb

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Battle of the Bulge

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In which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west
Last large offensive attack for Hitler–> surprised/surrounded troops in Ardennes Forest in Belgium–> Allied Victory–> Hitler tries to take Allies with Dunkirk tactic
attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.

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Dwight Elsenhower

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U.S. General who led the D-Day invasion of Normandy

Allied commander of the European theater

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Eva Braun

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Hitlers wife (mistress)

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Erwin Rommel

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DescriptionJohannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II,

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RAF

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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom’s aerial warfare force

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D-day

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the largest invasion force in history stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
The battle of Normandy and result of France liberated
which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

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Nisei

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  • a person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan.
  • American born children of Japanese immigrants
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Convoy

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A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support.

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D-Day

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the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.

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Bushito

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Japanese code to fight to the death

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Hitler youth

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the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Swing kids

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Is someone who listened to illegal music in the 1940

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Poland

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We’re death camps were

And was located in Central Europe

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Israel

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Jewish homeland

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Manhattan project

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Usa secret atomic bomb program

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Paul Tibbets jr

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Piloted the enola gay.dropped atomic on Hiroshima

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Enola gay

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Is a Boeing B-29 super fortress bomber

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Hiroshima

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Hiroshima, a modern city on Japan’s Honshu Island, was largely destroyed by an atomic bomb during World War II.
City were the first atomic bomb was dropped

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Leyte gulf

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Navl between the U.S and Japan in which the u.s retake the Philippines and Japanese navy defeated
Japanese navy is destroyed and the Philippines island are liberated

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Battle of Britain

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was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.

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El Alamein

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german afrika corps under rommel pushed british inside egypt as far as the town

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Internment

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Camps for Japanese American were forced into prison camps by the American government in the USA

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The Holocaust code

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Final solution

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Berlin

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Where Soviet Union and the American/British forces meet

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Alamogordo, Mexico

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Where it was used in a test

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Battle of Anzio

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The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II

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Bernardo montagomery

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  • was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
  • famous for his victory at the Battle of El Alamein
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Bastogne

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The Siege of Bastogne was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge.

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Anschluss

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the Anschluss was among the first major steps in Adolf Hitler’s long-desired creation of an empire, including German-speaking lands and territories Germany had lost after World War I.

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