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Chief of staff during ww2. Increased size of U.S. army. Helped devise operation overload in 1944
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General of 7th U.S. Army in Mediterranean and European theaters
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Main General in Europe
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Control of 82nd and 28th divisions in WW2
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Only living black ww2 veteran to earn The Metal of Honor. Lead a battalion that secured Castle Aghinolfi
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Mass merger of 6 million Jews gypsies and homosexuals. Concentration camps in occupied Poland
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American ships could not carry weapons to foreign ports but foreign boat could come to the U.S. Buy weapons and then transport them back
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German and British air forces fought in the Sumer and fall of 1940. The Germans bombed Britains military posts and civilians.
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First peace time draft in American history
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First U.S. volunteer force in the Chinese Air Force
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Congress authorized the sale and lease of army supplies to any country fighting the Axis Powers
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First black service men to serve as military aviators
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Americans bought war bonds to support the war effort
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Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and we declared war on them the next day
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They communicated with each other and the Japanese couldn't break the Navajo code so the Japanese didn't know what they were saying or doing
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Led the rebuilding of Japan, led many troops in Japan, and took back the Philippines
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Fleet admiral in the navy, leading U.S. submarines( changed from gas powered to diesel which led to nuclear powered submarines) also helped developed strategies for battle such as Imo Jima
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Taking every third Island as a base
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Japanese American relocation and internment
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Gov encouraged people to grow their own fruits and vegetables so that more food could be sent to the troops.
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U.S. And Philippine forces surrender to Japanese. They forced prisoners to march 60 miles through the jungle where many died
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Gov put restrictions on how much sugar, gasoline, rubber, meat ect a person could buy in order to help the war effort
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FDR sent American scientists to New Mexico to develop and explode the worlds 1st atomic bomb
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Destroyed Japan's naval strength
-US regained control of the pacific
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Gave pro war information to American people like propaganda "yay! America" encouraging war bonds, rations, victory gardens etc
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Invasion of Normandy France. Gave the allies a foot hold in Natzi Europe - turning point in the war
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Adolf Hitler attempted to split the allied armies.
Allied victory -
Japanese relocation ruled constitutional
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Victory in Europe Day. The Germans surrendered
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. U.S. Wanted to show that we had and prove we were serious and not afraid to show off, end of war came soon after
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Japan surrenders, ended rule of the emperor. American occupation under general Douglas MacArthur
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Series of 13 trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice 1945-1949
