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  • Propoganda

    Propoganda
    Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause or position.
  • Fascism

    Fascism
    Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th century.
  • US declares Neutrality

    US declares Neutrality
    US declares neutrality in World War I.
  • Dictator

    Dictator
    A dictator is a ruler who wields absolute authority. An examples is Joseph Stalin.
  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini
    He was an Italian leader, politician and journalist of the National Fascist Party ruling the country as Prime Minister.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
    He was the 32nd President of the United States.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler
    He was a Autralian who wasn't accepted in the army so then he moved to Germany and became a Natzi leader.
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    It was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • Women's Rights in WWII

    Women's Rights in WWII
    Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
    It was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    It was the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II
  • Japanese-American Interment Camps

    Japanese-American Interment Camps
    The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.
  • War Bonds and Rationing

    War Bonds and Rationing
    With the onset of World War II, numerous challenges confronted the American people. The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time.
  • Office of War Information

    Office of War Information
    It was a United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad.
  • Fire Bombing of Dresden

    Fire Bombing of Dresden
    It was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre.
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker
    He was a United States Army officer who received a Medal of Honor, the highest military award given.
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    He was the 33rd President of the United States, right after FDR.
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy
    He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War I.
  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill
    He was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Nazism

    Nazism
    It is the ideology and practice of the German Natzi Party and state.
  • Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens
    Is the debut album from John & Mary, recorded in 1990 just six months after the two met in December 1989 and immediately following their signing with Rykodisc and John Lombardo.