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The committee looked into the financial and banking interests that fueled the US participation in WWI, as well as the operations and profits of the industrial and commercial enterprises that supplied armaments to both the Allies and the US. -
Following the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed the title of Fuhrer, or "Leader," and became Germany's undisputed dictator. -
Allowed the president to restrict US ships from transporting US-made weapons to nations at war; allow US citizens to travel aboard ships affiliated with the countries at war at their own risk.
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Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its accomplices across German-occupied Europe, accounting for roughly two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
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Following the onset of war in Europe, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined a policy to a joint session of the US Congress on September21, 1939. -
1936, he reannexed/remilitarized the Rhineland, which had been demilitarized under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. However, because these regions were essentially part of Germany, and many people in both France and Britain thought the Treaty was grossly unfair, little was done to challenge Hitler's actions other than registering diplomatic protests. Hitler achieved Anschluss, or union, between Nazi-Germany and his home Austria in 1938.
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In order to prevent a violent confrontation, Britain and France made significant concessions to the aggressive German Nazi state. Czechoslovakia was the abandoned victim, because it was not even invited to the summit where its fate was to be decided. -
Following the onset of war in Europe, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined a policy to a joint session of the US Congress on September 21, 1939.
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a non-aggression deal signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that allowed the two powers to partition Poland. -
The German invasion began on September1,1939, one week after Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Accord and one day after the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet authorized the pact.
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On September 2, 1940, the United States and the United Kingdom reached an agreement in which the Royal Navy received 50 US Navy destroyers of the Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson classes in exchange for land rights on British territory.
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Campaigns that were fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts, as well as Morocco and Algeria, and Tunisia.
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the German invasion of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands during the Second World War
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a Second World War military campaign in which the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm defended the United Kingdom against large-scale raids by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Juan Garcia ("Garbo"), a British double spy, transmits his first forged message to Berlin. In the Smolensk pocket, Germans encircle 300,000 Soviets, delaying the push in Moscow. The United States extends the Security Zone from 26 degrees west to 22 degrees west, bringing Iceland within the Western Hemisphere defense zone.
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During World War II, the United States was able to send wartime aid and support to the Allies while remaining a neutral country
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the code name for Nazi Germany's and parts of its Axis allies' invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941, during World War II.
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On Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise military offensive against the United States against the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00 a.m. -
between 110,000 and 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, the majority of whom lived on the Pacific coast, were forcibly relocated and imprisoned in concentration camps in the country's western heartland.
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During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.
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In Southern Russia, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad (now Volgograd). The fight was distinguished by intense close-quarters combat and air raids that targeted civilians.
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Towards the end of the European war, it was launched through the highly forested Ardennes region in Belgium and Luxembourg.
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The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, in a landmark decision.
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During World War II, the United States Marine Corps landed on the island of Iwo Jima and eventually seized it from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
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The Allies of World War II formally accepted Germany's unconditional surrender of its military forces on this day, marking the end of World War II in Europe. -
On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord began with landing operations and associated airborne operations. -
The American B-29 bomber Enola Gay detonated an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
United States dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan in its city Nagasaki -
The day that Imperial Japan surrendered in the war, ending it completely