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Japanese aggression against China & Indochina. Japan intended to create a Japanese sphere of economic domination, trying to solve economic problems through expansion.
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Anti-semitic & racial laws passed by Hitler in 1935 which restricted the rights of Jews in Germany
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Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land, in exchange for Hitler's agreement to seek no more territory after that concession.
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"Night of broken glass" Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and buisinesses and killed close to 100 Jews
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FDR attempts to change American policy from isolationism to international involvement led to evolving, more involved polices such as Cash and Carry, Destroyers-for-bases deal, and Lend Lease Act.
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Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939 led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany.
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Necessary in the interest of the defense of the United States
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A. Phillip Randolph threatened to organize a march on Washington demanding equal access to war-time jobs. FDR then issued the Executive Order of 8802, prohibiting ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.
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A broad statement of US began even before US at war
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Japan attack in response to US embargoes and because it sa the US Pacific fleet as threat to its growing empire. FDR said that it is a date will live in infamy.
On Monday December 7, 2020 while I was listening to the lesson I realized that it was Pearl Harbor Day. I have always wanted to know why the US don't celebrate Pearl Harbor Day. -
Churchill FDR- alliance strengthened between US & Great Britain by signing Atlantic Charter.
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This was authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese decent and resident aliens from Japan.
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The victory at the Battle of Midway stopped the Japanese advance and put them on the defensive
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The invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Metterranean Sea from German control and protech the oil fields in the Middle East
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The inasion of Normandy on D-Day finally provided the long-awaited western front.
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This Battle was the last German offensive
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Korematsu lost & the Supreme Court upheld Japanese internment as Constitutional.
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Churchill, FDR, STalin- FInal plans for the defeat of Europe & began discussion of post war European Plans
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President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home islands (which would result in too many American lives lost)
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Intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international coperation and to create and maintain international order
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Pledged to contain communism in Europe and was first applied when the US supplied military and financial aid to Geece and Turkey to resist the communist-backed rebel forces there.
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US offered financial aid [Marshall Plan] to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism.
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This demonstrates the impact of German war cribes on the conscience of the Us & the world.
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The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water and other supplies via air drops
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Established a military alliance aimed at the Soviet Union, In 1955, the Soviet Union organized the Warsaw Pact.
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The space race took off when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.
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As a result the US COngress passed the National Defense Education Act
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This became a symbol of the Cold War
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SOvient Union invaded Afghanistan on Dec 24, 1979 to prop up friendly government
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This event was considered to be an end of Cold War
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