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leader of the National Fascist Party, Mussolini sided with Germany.
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was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from
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When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria.Their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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The policy's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. It also reinforced the idea.
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He was leader of the Nazi party and became a powerful dictator. Hitler started World War II by invading Poland and then invading many other European countries. Started Holocaust
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Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war .
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The war was fought between the armed forces of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire .The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia.
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The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany
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(a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years
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Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany,
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The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.
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Was a British prime minister and statesman who led the country to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War Two.
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Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war.
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Goals President Franklin D. Roosevelt, freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:Freedom of speech
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This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
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Ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces.
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Policy statement issued, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies
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The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.Office of Price Administration
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Was a surprise military strike conducted by the japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
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persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, Organized by Hitler
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The Double V Campaign was a motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. This campaign occurred during World War 2.
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120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps. The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of Japanese descent spying for the Japanese
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exterminate the Jewish people, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe.
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Was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.
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Representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military.
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was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese.It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, was retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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During World War II, the Marine Corps used one of the thousands of languages spoken in the world to create an unbreakable code: Navajo.
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Fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war.
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Development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
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The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa . The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together.
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The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States.was a major German offensive campaign
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plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase
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was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit,
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During the Conference, the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany. Japan.meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
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American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history
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he had made 2.5 years earlier to the people of the Philippines: he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind
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The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.as the World War II meeting of the heads of government
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Was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. Five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting
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The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan.
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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
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Was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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USA becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II,
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Mame chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
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Most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany
