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Hitler sent troops across stretch of allied front from southern Belgium into Luxemburg; Germans advance 50 miles into allied lines creating a bulge; Sign: german offensive
Battle of the Bulge
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Meeting of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at a Crimean resort to discuss the postwar world on Feb.4-11, 1945; Joseph Stalin claimed large areas in eastern Europe for Soviet domination
Yalta Conference
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Hitlers "final solution"; Extermination of jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and handicapped; 6 million jews exterminated; Auschwitz liberated in early 1945
Holocaust
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Last meeting of major allied powers, the conference took place outside of Berlin from July 17 to August 2, 1945; United States president Truman, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and British prime minister Clement Attle finalized plans begun at Yalta
Potsdam Conference
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Name of Paul Tibbets mother; B 29 bomber (first bomb dropped on Japan)
Enola Gay
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Uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima; caused 70,000+ deaths instantly; end of 1945, 140,000 are killed; 23 americans are killed
"Little Boy"
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Plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki; dropped by B29 bomber Soux; 100,00+ killed, Japan Surrenders (sign.); Emperor
"Fat Man"
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