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May 3, 2024 · Potsdam Conference, (July 17–August 2, 1945), Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Learn about the ...
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1 day ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] is a term used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire ...
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May 21, 2024 · The World War 2 Memorial is a 7 acre (3 hectares) memorial located on the National Mall and is dedicated to those who served in uniform and at the homefront during the war. Like most memorials in DC, the World War 2 National Memorial is open 24 hours a day. It is free to visit and no tickets are required. A fun story I like to share about the ...
3 days ago · To put this enormous loss of life in perspective, consider that World War I (1914-1918) caused about 20 million deaths out of a world population of 1.8 billion in 1914. [2] So while WW1 was devastating, WW2 was nearly 3 times deadlier in absolute numbers and also deadlier relative to population.
4 days ago · Overall, from 1980 to 2022, nearly 61,000 people died while on active military duty, amounting to over 1,400 deaths annually on average and including an average of more than 250 each year who died ...
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May 17, 2024 · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
6 days ago · t. e. The diplomatic history of World War II includes the major foreign policies and interactions inside the opposing coalitions, the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers, between 1939 and 1945. High-level diplomacy began as soon as the war started in 1939. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill [1] forged close ties with France and ...
