World War II, also recognized as the Second World War and abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a worldwide conflict between 1939 and 1945. The major participants committed their entire industrial, econo ...
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The Japanese Emperor Hirohito proclaimed his surrender on August 15 and signed it on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. However, isolated militaries and peoples from Japan's far-flung forc ...
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Victory over Japan Day also recognized as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day commemorates the surrender of Imperial Japan in World War II, effectively ending the conflict. The term has ...
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The US launched two nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Between 129,000 and 226,000 persons died in the two attacks, most of them civilians. In the last year of WWI ...
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Victory in Europe Day marks the formal recognition by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its military forces on May 8, 1945, marking the end of World War II in E ...
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The Battle of Berlin is considered one of the final significant offensives of World War II's European theatre. The Red Army had momentarily halted on a line 60 kilometres (37 miles) east of Ber ...
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The Normandy landings were the landing actions and related airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II's Operation Overlord on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. It was the most ...
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The Ardennes Counteroffensive, usually known as the Battle of the Bulge, was a major German offensive assault on the Western Front during World War II that lasted from December 16, 1944, to January ...
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During World War II, the Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations directed by the First Canadian Army, with Polish, Canadian, and British soldiers attached, to free up the maritime ...
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The Battle of Aachen was a major World War II battle conducted between American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, from October 2 to 21, 1944. The Siegfried Line, Germany's major ...
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The Combat of Hurtgen Forest was a sequence of violent battles conducted on the Western Front between American and German forces from September 19 to December 16, 1944, in the Hurtgen Forest, a 54- ...
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It was a World War II Allied military operation in the Netherlands from 17 September to 25 September 1944. Its goal was to carve a 64-mile salient into German territory with a bridgehead across the ...
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