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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Hitler seeks to regain lost territory
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eight-month period at the start of World War II
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French surrendered after Italy entered the war on the side of Germany
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Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force
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gave 50 US naval destroyers to Britain in exchange for the use of naval and air bases in eight British possessions
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United States non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into WWII
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required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft
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provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States
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freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear
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United States Navy warship and was noted for being torpedoed by a German U-boat and survived
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1st US ship lost
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American Naval base in Hawaii bombed by the Japanese that completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S.
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military strategy employed by the Allies
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represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines
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forcible transfer by the Japanese Army Filipino and American prisoners of war to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, San Fernando, Pampanga,
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naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia
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after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.
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marked the culmination of the WWII
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Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to fight the Axis power until their surrender
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, promised that Soviet would enter war and confirmed the launching of cross channel invasion
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Allied forces invaded northern France
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few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte
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Germans launch the last major offensive of the war,
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the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term
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re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany
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American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands
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major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army against the Imperial Japanese Army
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suffers a stroke and dies, his death marked a critical turning point in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union
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mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender
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to negotiate terms for the end of World War II
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atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan Day
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trials held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice,
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military trial to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for Class A crimes
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secret military project to produce the first US nuclear weapon
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