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German forces invaded Poland and W.W.II begins
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It was a policy that was proposed to replace the Neutrality Acts of 1936
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The Selective Training and Service Act established the first peacetime draft in U.S. history
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Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection to a record third term
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It was a signed law which America supplied the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war materiel during World War II
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A surprised attack by the Empire of Japan. The attack led directly to the American entry into World War II
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This was the relocation and internment by the United States government, approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese to camps
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Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia
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The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery took command of the British Eighth Army August 1942.The Allied victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign. It ended Axis hopes of occupying Egypt, taking control of the Suez Canal, and gaining access to the Middle Eastern oil fields.
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An Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. The operation was commanded by Major General John P. Lucas and was intended to outflank German forces of the Winter Line and enable an attack on Rome
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Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection, becomes the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term
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A major German offensive, launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes Mountains region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
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It was fought between America and Japan on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific
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The Red Army breached the German front as a result of the Vistula–Oder Offensive and advanced westward, through East Prussia, Lower Silesia, East Pomerania, and Upper Silesia, temporarily halting on a line east of Berlin along the Oder River.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman becomes President
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"Victory in Europe Day" Germany surrenders and its the end of World War II in Europe
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An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders which ends World War II
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Prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany.