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| 1939 December 13 |
| | | The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled after a battle with Allied ships near the river Plate | |
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| 1940 August 13 |
| | | The Battle of Britain reaches its most intense phase, with 1500 German planes involved in a single day's assault | |
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| 1941 July 16 |
| | | Less than four weeks after crossing the Russian border, a German army is within 200 miles of Moscow | |
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| 1941 December 5 |
| | | The German advance is held just short of Moscow as winter arrives | |
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| 1942 June 7 |
| | | US planes sink four Japanese aircraft carriers in the battle of Midway, halting for the first time Japan's aggressive expansion | |
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| 1942 July 4 |
| | | Auchinleck finally stops Rommel's advance, in the first battle of El Alamein | |
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| 1942 August 7 |
| | | US and Japanese forces begin a violent six-month struggle for Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands | |
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| 1942 September 13 |
| | | A desperate battle begins for the city of Stalingrad, with house-to-house fighting between Germans and Russians | |
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| 1942 October 23 |
| | | Montgomery launches the second battle of El Alamein against Rommel | |
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| 1942 November 25 |
| | | Soviet tanks complete the encirclement of 20 German divisions at Stalingrad | |
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