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The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products. The board set production quotas and allocated raw materials. It also conducted psychological testing to help people.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia,which eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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This move was not popular with many germans who supported Hitler.
In the mid and late 1930s, Frnace and Britain especially followed a foreign policy of appeasement. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated. -
Hitler unleashed he invasion of the Low Countries and France on May 10, 1940. The Armisice is signed on June 22. Under its terms, two thrids of France is to be occupied by the Germans. The French army is to be disbanded.
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The Lend-Lease Act was passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease was supplies to any nation deemed.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies.
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The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese air raid.
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The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on May 15, 1942 by Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, a prominent society woman in Texas.
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h planning for the operation began in the summer of 1942, the powerful offensive capability of German ground forces in Western Europe, the need to contain the U-boat threat to the Atlantic convoy routes, the strategic decision to divert troops and amphibious craft to the Mediterranean, and the difficulties of building up offensive forces in Britain, all combined to prevent an invasion of France in the following year.
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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, a Democrat, the U.S. successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, the start of the Cold War.
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Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps.
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The Yalta Conference meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. To some extent, it has remained controversial.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on April 10, 1945 in Berlin. His wife committed suicide with him by ingesting cyancide. The Soviet archives record that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations until 1970 when they were again exhumed, cremated and the ashes scattered.
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V E Day stands for Victory in Europe day.
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On Septemer 2, 1945 Japan finally surrended. The ceremony took less than an hour long. This generated many memorable images.
