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WW2 major events

Major events of WW2 (This won't be all of them, I just did the ones I remember).
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Country invaded on 1st September 1939, sparking WW2
Poland
Name of the war between Finland and USSR (Nov 1939 - March 1940)
Winter War
German Operation for the invasion of Denmark and Norway (April 9th - June 10th 1940)
Operation Weserubung
Country invaded by Germany en route to France (May 1940)
Belgium
Country surrendering to the Germans on June 25th 1940
France
Town where the bulk of the BEF escaped France
Dunkirk
Town where the 51st Highland Division made their last stand during the fall of France
St Valery en Caux
Aerial Battle fought over the UK (June-Oct 1940)
Battle of Britain
Name of German Operation to invade the USSR (June 1941)
Operation Barbarossa
Vital port in Libya sieged by the Germans/Italians
Tobruk
Decisive battle in the African Campaign won by the British (Oct-Nov 1942)
2nd Battle of El Alamein
Large scale Soviet Offensive (June-August 1944)
Operation Bagration
Costliest Urban battle of the war (July 1942 - February 1943)
Battle of Stalingrad
Longest siege of WW2, lasting 872 days (Sept 1941 - January 1944)
Siege of Leningrad
Pocket in which Army Group Center were surrounded in during Operation Bagration
Kursk Pocket
The name of the day the Allied Invasion of Normandy took place (June 6th 1944)
D-Day
Pocket which the allies failed to properly exploit in France during the Battle of Normandy
Falaise Pocket
Italian island invaded on (July 1943)
Sicily
Country that surrendered to the allies and was promptly occupied by Germany (Sept 1943)
Italy
Major city finally taken by the Soviets (May 2nd 1945)
Berlin
German city firebombed on 13th Feb 1945, killing ~ 25,000 people
Dresden
American harbour surprise attacked by the Japanese on the 7th December 1941
Pearl Harbour
Region of China first invaded by the Japanese on 18th September 1931
Manchuria
City in which Japan committed massive atrocities (more than normal)
Nanjing
Sight of the largest surrender in British History (Feb 1942)
Singapore
Turning point of Pacific War (June 1942)
Battle of Midway
First city in history hit with an atomic bomb
Hiroshima
Last city nuked in history (so far)
Nagasaki
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