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  1. 2. was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land
  2. 4. the Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943), Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
  3. 7. July 1940 – 31 October 1940 Germany invaded Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany marking the official start to World War II.
  4. 9. the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft inflicted heavy damage and brought the US into World War II.
  5. 12. fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
  6. 13. a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps (USMC) forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
  7. 14. a method of warfare where the attacker spearheads an offensive using a rapid overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support
  8. 15. on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.
  9. 16. was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners
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  1. 1. the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
  2. 3. the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
  3. 5. was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.
  4. 6. an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War
  5. 8. During World War II, it was a heavily fortified site of a Japanese airbase, and its attack and capture in 1944–45 was one of the most severe US campaigns. It was returned to Japan in 1968.
  6. 10. from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia.
  7. 11. was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.