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    Rosie the Riveter: Women in the Workforce in WWII

    American women in the workforce during WW2

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    The Kindertransport: Rescuing the Children of WWII

    The eve of the 9th of November 1938 in Germany represents one of the darkest events in history, Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), as it would come to be…

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    The Female Heroes of World War II

    The scope of World War II as a historical event of mountainous magnitude is one that produced a myriad of heroes across many nationalities and journeys from both military and…

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    The Battle of Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo

    The Battle of Dunkirk, also referred to as the Dunkirk Evacuation, was a major military campaign that took place during World War II between the Allies and Nazi Germany. From…

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    The Great Debate: U.S. Intervention in WWII

    The United States’ entrance into the World War II campaign is arguably one of the most significant events during this dark period of history. This entrance, however, was a point…

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    The Sicilian Campaign: Operation Husky

    The Start of the Italian Campaign The Allied invasion of Italy, codenamed Operation Husky, was a large World War II campaign in which the Island of Sicily was taken from…

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    The Battle for Iwo Jima: A Gruesome Allied Victory

    The Battle for Iwo Jima can only be characterized as a military campaign of epic proportions which took place between forces of the United States Marine Corps and the military…

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    World War II in the Pacific: A Brief Summary

    The Japanese Expansion In 1931, Japan’s invasion of Manchuria marked the start of the Japanese expansion in East Asia, which continued with a violent attack on China in 1937. Japan…