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This was an invasion of poland when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded them. This is also known as the September Campaign.
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This is also known as the Phoney War. It is the eight month period at the start of the war where there was no fighting in the western front.
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When France fell it was split and Germany got the north and west and Italy got a small part of the south. Germans forces invaded France and this caused the French resistance to fall.
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This is the defence of the Royal Air Force against the German Air Force at the beginning of the war.
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This was an agreement between the US and the UK where the US gave the UK navy destroyers and the UK gave the US land rights.
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This was one of the largest anti-war committees in the US. They had over 800,000 members. It was dissolved after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Burke-Wadsworth Act was passed for the draft. There were 20 million eligible young men but half of them were turned down in the first year.
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The four freedoms were goals given by FDR. These were freedoms he proposed that everone in the world should enjoy.
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This was military aid to Britian, where Congress allowed us to lend supplies and weapons to anyone who would help secure the safety of the US.
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This was a ship torpedo by a German U-boat, but it ended up surviving thr attack and serced in other places later on.
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This was the first Clemson class destoryer that was sunk. It was sunk by a torpedo attack from a German submarine.
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This was when the Japanese planes attacked pearl harbor and killed more than 2,300 Americans.
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This is when the Japanese invaded the Phillipines
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This was when Fillipino and American Soldiers were surrenered to the Japanese. They were ,arched for days in the scorching heat of the Philippine Jungle.
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This was when the Japanese wanted to cpature all the Islands in the Pacific.
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This was a naval battle between the Japanese and the US and Australia. It was fought between May 4-8.
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This battle was fought to lessen the power of the United States. The Japanese wanted control of the Pacific.
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Thies was when the Germans fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Russia.
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There were two battles of El Alamein. They were both fought in Egypt. It was a batlle against the Axis powers to push them out of Egypt for good.
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This was a meeting between FDR and Winston Churchill. This confrence addressed tatical procedures and issues of diplomatic policy.
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This was a metting between FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. This was the first conference of the big three Allied leaders.
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This was when the Allies landed in Normandy and they made their way into Germany past enemy lines.
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This was when MacArthur returned back to the Philippines after he was forced to leave it 2 years earlier.
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He was elected into his 4th term on Nov 7, 1944. He is the only president that had more then 2 terms.
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This was a major German defense campaign that was launced in france near the end of the war.
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This was a meeting between FDR, WInston Churchill and Joseph Stalin when the war was coming to an end.
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This was a battle where the US marines landed on and eventually captured Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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This was an 82 day battle where the Allies where trying to get to Japan so they used the Island of Okinawa.
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FDR died on April 12,1945 and then Truman was his succesor who was made president.
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This was the victory of Europe, when the war ended in Europe.
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This was when scientest in America first started to build the atomic bomb.
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This was when the big three meet in Germany to negotiate terms for the end of the war.
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This was the smaller atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
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This was the second atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki after the little boy was.
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This was the actual end of the war when the axis powers surrenered.
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The Nuremberg Trials that were held to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
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These trials were held in Japan and used to bring the leaders of the Japanese to justice.
