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The lend-lease act was a program started in effort to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by giving aid to the UK, China, and later the Soviets
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The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7 killing 2,403 Americans and pulling America into the war
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Executive Order 9066 ordered all Japanese Americans to leave their home and live on military owned bases to insure that there were no spies and to make sure no one was working with the Japanese.
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On this day the Allies invaded Normandy with a 1,200-plane airborne assault and 5,000 vessels
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The day German unconditionally surrendered to the Allies
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The day Japan surrendered after the US bombed them, bringing WWII to an end
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NATO was an organization dedicated to stopping the spread of communism in the world and the US joined in 1949
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After North Korea invaded South Korea, the US came to South Korea's aid and helped them fight back North Korea
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The Red Scare was a time when everyone in the US was afraid of communism and Joseph McCarthy, a US senate, used his own tactics to try to hunt down communists in the US