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1 Abbey in Southern Italy, place of a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line (or Gustav Line) in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
2 Near to the coast of this Canadian island, F. D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Chartier
3 United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
4 A battle in World War II in the Pacific (August 71942-February 9 1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces
5 City in Russia, site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in September 1942-February 1943. This battle was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd
6 City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II
7 Allied victory in Egypt, it marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War (October 23 1942-November 11 1942)
8 A densely forested region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front where the Germans launched a major offensive campaign also known as "Batle of the Bulge" toward the end of World War II in Europe (December 16 1944-January 25 1944)
9 Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945)
10 A region in northwestern France on the English channel where the Allies landed on June 6, 1944
11 German town near Berlin where from July 17 to August 2, 1945, the Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK to establish post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war
12 Air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom and Royal Air Force (RAF) during the summer and autumn of 1940. This battle was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date
13 A city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
14 One of the bloodiest battles in the war, a fight to the death for Japanese soldiers, as the Americans were coming closer to Japan (February 19 1945-March 26 1945)
15 Country where WWII started after its invasion by German forces on September 1, 1939
16 Iranian city where F. D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin celebrated a conference to open a new third front and address the Allies' relations with Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan, and the envisaged post-war settlement.
17 The German forces were stopped by Soviet forces in a battle (October 1941 January 1942) at the gates of this Russian city
18 Crucial and decisive American victory over the Japanese in a naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, between 4 and 7 June 1942
19 Site of operation "Shingle", a 1944 Allied invasion of Italy that was successful in the sense that the allies landed, but relatively little was accomplished afterwards
20 City in Crimea where F. D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin had a meeting from February 4 to 11, 1945, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization
21 There was an engagement near this Russian city between the Soviet and German forces. The German offensive (Operation Zitadelle) led to the largest tank battle in history. For the Germans, the battle represented the final strategic offensive they were able to mount in the east. For the Soviets, the victory gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war
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