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City
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Battle site with the most casualties in human history
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Stalingrad
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U.S. city which produced more tanks than all of Germany
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Detroit
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Japanese city firebombed during the Doolittle-Raid
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Tokyo
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City with the largest tank battle the world has ever seen
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Kursk
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Greek city taken by german paratroopers from the british
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Herakleion
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French evacuation site in 1940
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Dunkirk
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German city firebombed on February 15
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Dresden
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Polish city nearby the Auschwitz concentration camp
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Oswiecim
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German city where soviet and american troops met
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Torgau
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City struck by atom bomb "little boy" on August 6
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Hiroshima
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Indian city which was a major battle site against the japanese
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Imphal
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British-occupied city in asia, whose capture led to the surrender of around 100,000 british troops
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Singapore
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Heavily-bombed australian city which was never taken by the japanese
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Darwin
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"Raped" city in China with hundreds of thousands of people being murdered or raped
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Nanjing
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Capital of unoccupied China
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Chongqing
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Site of the 1935 trials to create laws for systematically killing the jews
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Nuremberg
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City struck by atom bomb "fat man" on August 9
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Nagasaki
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Major city in Okinawa, taken by the americans in 1945
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Naha
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Russian city sieged for nearly 3 years by Germany and Finland
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Leningrad
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Site of one of the most important victories for the allies on the eastern front
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Moscow
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City fiercely defended by axis troops in 1944/45
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Budapest
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Ukrainian fort city captured back by the soviets in 1944
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Odessa
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City the british failed to capture for the first few days after D-Day
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Caen
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First Major city to be taken in Operation Dragoon
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Marseille
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Major battle in North Africa between Germany and the UK
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El-Alamein
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City where Mussolini was assassinated while he tried to escape from Italy
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Milan
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British city attacked by german bombers during the blitz and V2-Rockets in 1944/45
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London
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Site of the german Reichstag and Hitler's Bunker
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Berlin
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Polish city with the biggest jewish ghetto
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Warsaw
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The encirclement of this city in 1941 led to the capture of nearly 700,000 soviet soldiers
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Kiev
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Capital of unoccupied France 1941-44
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Vichy
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