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| January 20--Nazi "Wannsee Conference." Announcement of the "final solutionof the European Jewish Question." June 3-6--Decisive Allied victory against Japan in the Battle of MidwayIsland, a major turning point in the war in the Pacific. Nov. 25--"New York Times" prints (on its tenth page) first substantiatedreport of Nazi death camps. |
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| Jan. 31-Feb. 2--Surrender of the Sixth German Army in Stalingrad, USSR.Germans now driven westward by the Soviet Army. |
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| June 6--D-Day. Landing of Allies in Normandy, France. |
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| March 12--Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. March 25--Meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe. March 30--Hitler commits suicide. May 8--V-E Day. Formal surrender of the German armies. Aug. 6--U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug. 9--U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Sept. 2--V-J Day. Japan's formal surrender. |
