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This meeting is an example of select military intervention as Italy and Germany met with Great Britain and France in Munich to discuss Czechoslovakia. This meeting lead to Great Britain and France forcing Czechoslovakia to give up the Sudetenland to Germany. -
This government program helped out Allied forces by allowing the US to supply them with food, oil and equipment. -
In the morning of December 7, Japanese planes bombed American planes, barracks, and ships in the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This even formally pulled America into the war. -
This is the research and development that produced the nuclear bombs. -
This order forced all Japanese Americans to move into internment camps in the middle of the desert. -
This is one of America's propaganda that was released to the public. While some propaganda aimed to boost the support for the war, or to push for people to buy war bonds this is different. This propaganda was aimed to women to show how women could help out in the war by building equipment for the soldiers. -
Before the outbreak of World War 2, American unemployment was varying from 15 to 25%, buy by 1944 unemployment was at its all time lowest. -
American, British, Canadian, and other Allied soldiers parachuted behind German lines at night, and in the morning launched an amphibious assault on the beaches. After thousands of causalities, the Allies secured the beach and pushed further into France. -
This is one of the most famous examples of island hopping, where the Navy and Marine Corps landed and captured Iwo Jima. -
After the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese cities, Emperor Hirohito called for Japans surrender. On September 2, Japanese and American officials signed the surrender and World War 2 officially ended.