Cities in WW2

Name these strategic WW2 cities by clue. Across both Europe and Pacific theaters
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Clue
Years
City
1) Capital of unoccupied France
1940-44
Vichy
2) German city firebombed by Allied forces
1945
Dresden
3) Brutal battle between Nazi and Soviet forces for control of this city
1942-Feb 43
Stalingrad
4) Mass evacuation of Allied troops from this northern French city
1940
Dunkirk
5) Housed the largest Jewish ghetto during the war
1940-1943
Warsaw
6) Anne Frank and her family hid in a secret attic from the Nazis in this city
1942-44
Amsterdam
7) Japanese city heavily firebombed by Allied forces by US air raids
Mar 16-17,1945
Kobe
8) Site of the famous criminal trials of Nazi leaders after the war
1945-46
Nuremberg
9) Hit by a US atomic bomb, the first Japanese city destroyed
Aug 6, 1945
Hiroshima
10) Strategic Polish port city annexed by Germany after the invasion
1939
Danzig
11) Crimean port city that held the Allied conference to reconstruct Germany after the war
1945
Yalta
12) Norwegian port city vital to German operations due to its iron ore supply
1940
Narvik
13) Key French city liberated by Allied forces in Aug 1944 near the D-day beaches
1944
Caen
14) Egyptian port city won by British forces to keep Axis powers from invading further into Africa
Oct-Nov 1942
El Alamein
15) Chinese capital brutally invaded by Japanese forces before the war
1937-38
Nanjing
16) This Australian city was heavily struck by Japanese air raids during the war
1942-43
Darwin
17) German financial hub bombed by Allied forces to destroy key industrial areas
1943-44
Frankfurt
18) Became capital of West Germany after the war until the German reunification
1949-1990
Bonn
19) This Belgian city became the epicenter of the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region
Dec 1944
Bastogne
20) Danish city that served as the German HQ of operations and Gestapo occupation
1943-45
Aarhus
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