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United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland. Hitler claimed the invasion was a defensive action.
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Eight-month period at the start of World War, also known as the Phoney War, during this time there was no major military operations.
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France signed an armistice with Germany. Hitler insisted that it be done in the same railway car where Germany had at the end of WWI.
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The first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.
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Non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II
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50 mothballed destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights.
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18 to 37 were eligible to be drafted into the war.
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Gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the legislation to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to defend itself against the Axis powers.
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A US Navy warship during World War II that was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
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The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with bombs that killed 2,300 Americans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
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Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
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the forcible transfer 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army
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Battle between the Japanesse navy and the US and Aulstalian navy and air force.
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Naval battle six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
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A majir battle near an Egyptian Railway. The Allies won
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Meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca
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A strategy to capture the Pacific islands one by one
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Meeting between U.S. President, British Prime, and Soviet Premier in Tehran
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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Douglas MacArthur comes back to the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.
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FDR is the only president to have served more than two terms.
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German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg
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13 trails in Germany against Nazi part officals.
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A meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Rossevelt.
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A major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima
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A series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands
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FDR passes away after four terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of the US in WWII
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The formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender
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The prodject that created the first atomic bomb
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The U.S. President, British Prime Minister, and the Soviet leader met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as revenge
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An atomic bomb dropped on Japan as revenge for Pearl Harbor.
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Truman declares Sep. 2 to be VJ day. (Victory over Japan)
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Trial against leaders of Japan for three types of war crimes.
