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World War II: Key Facts

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  1. Years World War II was fought — 1939–1945
  2. Event that started WWII in Europe — Germany's invasion of Poland
  3. Leader of Nazi Germany — Adolf Hitler
  4. Attack that brought the U.S. into the war — Pearl Harbor (1941)
  5. The three main Axis powers — Germany, Italy, Japan
  6. D-Day landings took place in — Normandy, France (1944)
  7. Cities struck by atomic bombs — Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  8. The genocide of six million Jews — The Holocaust
  9. V-E Day (Germany surrenders) — May 8, 1945
  10. British Prime Minister for most of the war — Winston Churchill
  11. U.S. president for most of the war — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  12. Soviet leader during WWII — Joseph Stalin
  13. Turning-point battle on the Eastern Front — Battle of Stalingrad
  14. German invasion of the USSR — Operation Barbarossa
  15. Allied evacuation from France (1940) — Dunkirk
  16. Italian fascist leader — Benito Mussolini
  17. Hitler's political party — The Nazi Party

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