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President Roosevelt issued an executive order on February 19 of the same year allowing the military to move Japanese-Americans to internment camps and seize their property.
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This was the first air raid to hit the Japanese Home Islands. Targets included Tokyo and several other locations on the island of Honshu.
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This was a Naval Battle that occurred in the Pacific Theatre of World War II
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World War II Campaign fought by American forces on the island of Guadalcanal.
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Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa during World War II.
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The popular nightclub burned down, killing nearly 500 people and injuring another 130.
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This was a conferenced held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco. Allied leaders met to strategize for the subsequent segment of World War II.
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This was a meeting of Allied leaders in Cairo, Egypt. The official position against Japan during World War II was discussed.
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A series of four assaults by the Allied forces against the Winter Line in Italy.
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Provided World War II veterans with funds for college, housing, and unemployment insurance.
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D-Day was the code name for the Normandy landings that marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of France in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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730 delegates from over 40 Allied Nations met at the Mount Washington hotel to discuss the regulation of the international monetary and financial order after World War II.
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A battle fought between the United States and Japan during World War II. It was codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the U.S.
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Largest Naval battle of World War II.
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This was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front of World War II.
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These trials sentenced war criminals for violating international law and war laws established after World War II.
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This was a meeting of the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union in order to decide Germany's postwar organization.
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Major World War II in which the U.S. Marine Corps captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japanese control.
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This battle was codenamed Operation Iceberg, and it was fought on the island of Okinawa.
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The President died from a hemorrhagic stroke.
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Germany's surrender signaled the end of World War II in Europe.
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Conference between the leaders of the USSR, USA, and UK to decide how to deal with Germany in the wake of the country's unconditional surrender.
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A second bomb was dropped three days later on Nagasaki.
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The organization was intended to prevent future world wars.
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This law outlined how the U.S. would manage nuclear technology it had developed with the aid of its World War II allies.
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This act limited the number of times that a President could serve in office as United States President.
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This was a federal law designed to restrict the power of labor unions in the U.S.
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This act restructured the United State's military and intelligence agencies. Among other things, it established the CIA and the NSA>
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Alben W. Barkley served as his vice president.
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The first major international crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway road and canal access to sectors of Bernlin under Western control.
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This was an intergovernmental alliance between 29 North American and European powers put together in order to implement the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Chiang Kai-shek's traditional Chinese KMT government retreated to Taiwan.
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This was a war between North and South Korea that began when North Korea invaded South Korea following a period of border clashes between the two nation-states.
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Puerto Rican activists attempted to gain entry to the Whitehouse, but were stopped security. White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt died in the attack.
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He was dismissed by President Truman for insubordination.
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Richard Nixon served as his vice president.
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This armistice ended the Korean War.
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This act said that if both the President and the Vice President died, the President pro tempore would take office, followed by the speaker of the house.