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The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly
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allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash
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transferred fifty mothballed destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions
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It initially required civilian males between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards
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established the Axis Powers of World War II. The pact was signed by representatives of Germany (Adolf Hitler), Italy (foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano) and Japan (ambassador Saburo Kurusu).
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The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler's advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.
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defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
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Pearl Harbor was bombed by japanesse zero's
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The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific
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It was part of the allied strategic plan to protect the convoy routes between the US, Australia and New Zealand
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a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis
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the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II
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the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines
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President Roosevelt was re-elected for a record 3rd time
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the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
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The united states used the first atomic bomb on hiroshima
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The united states used the second atomic bomb on this city, forcing japan to surrender
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a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II