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1915: A German U-boat sinks the SS 'Lusitania', killing 1,198 and inflaming anti-German feeling in the US.

1945: Nazi Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at General Eisenhower's HQ in Rheims, France.

1954: The Viet Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, effectively ending French involvement in Indochina.