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WWII: Victory

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D-day
June 6, 1944, the day of the invasion of western Europe by Allied forces
Operation Bagration
codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation
Reichstag
lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich
Harry Truman
Roosevelt's vice president; authorized use of atomic bombs on Japan
Benito Mussolini
Italian Fascist leader. Premier of Italy; killed on April 28, 1945
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Adolf Hitler
Nazi dictator of Germany, Austrian; committed suicide on April 30, 1945
Iwo Jima
Pacific island. U.S. controlled after 1945; returned to Japan in 1968
Okinawa
largest Ryukyu Island in the Pacific. Taken by U.S. forces April 1945
Potsdam Conference
1945 meeting to determine punishment for defeated Nazi Germany
Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945 formal unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to Allies
Hiroshima
Japanese seaport, site of first military use of atomic bomb, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki
site of second military use of atomic bomb, August 9, 1945
Clement Attlee
British statesman. Replaced Churchill as prime minister in 1945.
September 2, 1945
date of formal Japanese surrender, official end of WWII.

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