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bobdina
06-24-2009, 10:08 PM
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.

1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.

1945 - Soviet troops, in a parade, past Red Square in celebration of their victory over Germany.

1945 - British bombers destroyed the "Bridge Over the River Kwai." The bridge had been built by thousands of British and Allied prisoners of war.

1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade. http://www.on-this-day.com/cgi-bin/otd/wwiiotd/wwiiotd.pl