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| 1944 October 25 |
| | | Victory over Japan in a massive 2-day battle at Leyte Gulf assures US recovery of Philippines | |
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| 1944 November |
| | | Tito and his partisans, with Soviet assistance, liberate Belgrade | |
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| 1944 November 7 |
| | | President Roosevelt, although seriously ill, is elected for a fourth term with Harry S. Truman as his vice-president | |
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| 1944 November 24 |
| | | American B-29 bombers take off from the newly captured Saipan on the long trip to bomb Tokyo | |
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| 1944 November 28 |
| | | Allied bombs destroy the strategic bridge in Thailand over the River Kwai, built by the Japanese using prisoners of war as slave labour | |
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| 1944 December 3 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Greece between rival groups of partisans resisting demobilization | |
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| 1944 December 18 |
| | | The Germans stage a counter-attack in the Ardennes region before being pushed back in the Battle of the Bulge | |
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| 1944 December 21 |
| | | With Budapest still in German hands, the Soviets set up a provisional Hungarian government, at Debrecen | |
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| 1944 December 26 |
| | | The Soviet army surrounds the Hungarian capital, Budapest | |
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| 1945 January |
| | | Allied bombing of Berlin forces Hitler to take refuge in his underground bunker | |
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