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Started Japanese aggression. Japan wanted to create a sphere of economic domination. The US limited imposing trade.
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Britain and France allowed Hitler to take more land in exchange for Hitler not to seek more land after concession. Hitler broke the pact which led to the end of the European policy.
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Also known as the night of broken glass. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews
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It led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. Germany used the blitzkrieg strategy. They launched air raids on Britain.
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It allowed nations at war to buy goods from the US, but only if they paid with cash. They also had to carry their own merchandise on their own ships.
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Executive Order 8802, prohibiting ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.
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Roosevelt had to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or dispose of to any government and defense articles.
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FDR and the British prime minister signed it. It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security. It also showed FDR's commitment to opposing German and Japanese aggression.
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It was a surprise attack by the Japanese against the Pearl Harbor naval base. Japan attacked because of the US's use of embargoes.
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A broad statement of US and British war aims. It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security.
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Executive Order 9066 authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese descent and resident aliens from Japan. Japanese residents and Americans of Japanese descent were ordered to sell their property & belongings and report for deportation to camps in the inland deserts.
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The US's strategy was island hopping. Victory at Midway stopped the Japanese advance and put them on the defensive. Japanese wasn't going to give in.
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The invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle East.
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Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American who refused to leave his house for the executive order 9066. He then took his case to court, which he lost.
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The invasion of Normandy on D-Day finally provided the long-awaited western front. Germany was now engaged on three fronts and had to divert resources to a western front.
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Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis
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Conference between Churchill, FDR, and Stalin. The final plans for the defeat of Europe & began a discussion of post-war European Plans.
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President Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home islands. Which also resulted in many Americans' lives being lost.
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The United Nations is the intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. The idea based on the League of Nations was originally proposed by Woodrow Wilson.
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It established the precedent that individuals are responsible for their own actions. The precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials and the conviction of Nazis has not brought an end to genocide throughout the world.
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The Truman Doctrine pledged to contain communism in Europe and was first applied when the United States supplied military and financial aid to Greece and Turkey to resist the communist-backed rebel forces there.
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The US supported the self-determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. The US supported Israel.
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The Marshall Plan also known as the economic recovery plan of 1948, was proposed by Sec. of State George Marshall. The US offered financial aid to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism.
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The Berlin Airlift was when the US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water, and other supplies by airdrops.
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US established NATO also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It established a military alliance aimed at the Soviet Union, and In 1955, the Soviet Union organized the Warsaw Pact.
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The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb which led the United States to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race.
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Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. Truman's administration thought this invasion had been planned by the Soviet Union and urged the United Nations to take action. The United Nations voted unanimously to demand a ceasefire and support ‘police action’ to defend South Korea.
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The space race took off when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. As a result, the US Congress passed the National Defense Education Act.
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President Eisenhower intervened in Suez Crisis and extended containment to the Middle East. Suez Crisis was when Israeli troops pushed into Egypt towards the Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it
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US Congress passed the National Defense Education Act to
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Berlin Wall became a symbol of the Cold War to separate East & West Germany and keep people of the eastern block from escaping to freedom in the west through Berlin.
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to prop up a friendly government. The US-supported Afghan resistance movement secretly because of the containment policy.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall is considered to be the end of the Cold War.