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The film Pinocchio was released by the Walt Disney Corporation it was based on the Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
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The Japanese had a goal of destroying important american naval fleet units so that the Pacific Fleet would not interfere with them. Japan was trying to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt enacted Executive Order 9066 which authorizes Japanese-Americans relocation in the United States.
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The group was a nonviolent resistance led by a group of students as well as a professor at the University of Munich. They opposed all of the actions by the Nazi regime. Most members were sentenced to death or imprisonment after their arrest.
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The saying "Say cheese!" when taking a picture was first introduced in the 1940s. There is no exact event or date when people started saying it however, The Big Spring Herald, a newspaper based in Texas, featured the phrase in 1943.
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Richard James invented the slinky in 1943 and it later hit department stores in 1945. It was also the most popular Christmas present in 1945.
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A kamikaze aircraft was a plot guided bomb that the Japanese utilized in order to destroy warships. 3,862 kamikaze pilots died as a result of the suicide bomb attacks.
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The Truman Doctrine was an american foreign policy that stated that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to avoid the spread of communism.
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