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Started Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Japan intended to create a Japanese sphere of economic domination, trying to solve problems through expansion.
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Started Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Japan intended to create a Japanese sphere of economic domination, trying to solve problems through expansion.
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Anti-semitic & racial laws passed by Hilter in 1935 restricted the rights of Jew in Germany. Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
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Britain and France agreed to allow Hilter to take more land, in exchange for Hilter's agreement to seek no more territory after that concession. Hilter broke the Pact less than 6 months later by continuing to take territory, ending European policy of appeasement
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Night of broken glass. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews.
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Led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. Germany utilized the strategy of blitzkrieg then quickly invaded France and launched devastating air raids on Britain.
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Led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. Germany utilized the strategy of blitzkrieg then quickly invaded France and launched devastating air raids on Britain.
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Allowed at war to buy goods from the US if they paid cash upfront. Carried the merchandise on their own ships. Allowing for arms trade with Great Britain and France.
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Congress authorizes Roosevelt to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of to any such government and defense article. Which the thought it was necessary for the interest of the defense of the United States.
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Was a response issued by FDR, prohibiting ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation`s defense industry. It was a response to Philip Randolph's threat to organized a march on Washington demanding equal access to war-time jobs.
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A broad statement of US and British war aims. It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security.FDR & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed it. It also showed FDR`s commitment to opposing German and Japanese aggression.
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Surprise attack launched by the Japanese against Pearl Harbor naval base, as well nearby airfields.Japan attack in response to US embargoes and because it saw the US Pacific fleet as a threat to its growing empire. 2400 Americans killed, 1300 wounded. 19 US ships sunk or damaged.
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FDR issued to authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese descent and resident aliens from Japan. Japanese residents and Americans of Japanese descent were ordered to sell their property & belongings and report for deportation to camps in the inland deserts.
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Victory at Midway stopped the Japanese advance and put them on the defensive. The tenacity of the Japanese was not going to give in, revealing how costly an invasion of Japan would be. The US was then determined to have the Soviet Union agree to participate in any invasion of Japan.
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The invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle East. Took some pressure off the USSR, but the Soviet's fierce resistance to the Germans at Stalingrad turned the tide on the eastern front.
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It provided the long-awaited western front. Germany was now engaged on 3 fronts & had to divert resources to a western front included the Soviet Union, Italy & France.
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Was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis. Americans+British+French marched towards Berlin from the west. Soviets marched from the east.
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Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American who refused to leave his home per the Exec. Order (9066) issued in regards to Japanese Americans and resident aliens. He took his case to the Supreme Court, arguing that internment violated his Constitutional rights. Korematsu lost & the Supreme Court upheld Japanese internment as Constitutional.
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In this conference, it was Churchill, FDR &Stalin. Final plans for the defeat of Europe & began a discussion of post-war European Plans
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President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home islands. Japanese surrendered unconditionally, and no invasion was necessary after the bombs were dropped.
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The US played a key role in helping to organize and start the United Nations. The intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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The Truman Doctrine pledged to contain communism in Europe and was first applied when the United States supplied military and financial aid to Greece and Turkey to resist the communist-backed rebel forces there. Was made in March of 1947.
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Fearing that a war-torn and economically weak Western Europe would elect socialist/ communist governments, the US offered financial aid Marshall Plan to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism. This was peoposed by Sec. of state Geroge Marshall.
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The US supported the self-determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. The US promptly recognized & supported Israel demonstrates the impact of German war crimes on the conscience of the US & the world.
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The first test of US policy by the Soviet Union came when the Soviets blockaded Berlin. The US won this first Cold War confrontation with the Berlin Airlift. The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water and other supplies via air drops.
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It was establish to military alliance to aim at the Soviet Union. A military alliance of Eastern European nations against the NATO.
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This led the United States to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race.
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The Truman administration believed this invasion had been orchestrated by the Soviet Union and urged the United Nations to take action.The United Nations voted unanimously to demand a ceasefire and support police action’ to defend South Korea.
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President Eisenhower intervened in Suez Crisis in 1956 and extended containment to the Middle East.Suez Crisis: Israeli troops push into Egypt towards Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it.
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Promote science and math skills.Counteract the fear that consumerism had made Americans less competitive and less likely to win the arms race.
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The city of Berlin, Germany was divided at the end of World War II. The Soviets controlled East Berlin and the Allies controlled sections of West Germany.The city was divided by the Berlin Wall(const. begins Aug 13, 1961), which became a symbol of the Cold War to separate East & West Germany and keep people of the eastern bloc from escaping to freedom in the west through Berlin
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This prop up friendly government.US supported Afghan resistance movement because of containment policy. Soviets withdrew in 1989. Afghan rebel groups evolved into the Taliban, which aided and sheltered Al Qaeda.
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Fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 considered to be end of Cold War.Soviet Union collapsed in 1991
