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On March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was approved by Congress. This act allowed the U.S. government to lend or lease war supplies to any nation before actively entering fighting. The supplies that were able to be shipped ranged from tanks, aircraft, ships, weapons, and road-building supplies, to clothing, chemicals, and food.
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On August 14, 1941, the Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration issued at the time of World War two, made by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This document stated that the two leaders “deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world.”
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On December 7, 1941, the United States naval base was attacked by aerial Japanese forces. Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they were able to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. This event was what eventually lead the United States to enter World War Two.
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Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through the Executive Order 9066. From 1942-1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. It held approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans for a period of time in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas.https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
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The siege of Bataan was one of the most-devastating military defeats in American history. U.S. commander, Edward Ned King surrendered his sick and starving troops on April 9, 1942. Depending on where a prisoner reached the camp—the captives were beaten, shot, bayoneted, and, in many cases, beheaded; a large number of those who made it to the camp later died of starvation and disease.
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The Battle of Midway was a clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that occurred six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan had hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power but was unsuccessful due to the United States Navy's defense of the major base located at Midway Island. This historical event had effectively turned the tide of World War 2 in the Pacific.
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The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater, during World War Two. U.S. Marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an airbase under construction. The fighting on Guadalcanal marked a turning point in favor of the Allies in the Pacific War.
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Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. It started on November 8 and concluded on November 16, 1942. The invasion forces had to overcome French opposition in territories controlled by the Vichy Regime under Marshall Philippe Pétain.
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On December 9, 1942, the Allies stormed Gona and captured it during the last week of January 1943. The Allied forces quickly constructed landing strips, which resulted in the first series of island hopping.
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The Italian Campaign lasted from July 10, 1943, all the way to May 2, 1945. This was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up to the Italian mainland, which was toward Nazi Germany.
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The "D" in D-Day does not actually stand for anything besides to designate the launch date of a mission. D-Day was on June 6, 1944, when 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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The Yalta Conference was an important meeting of three World War Two allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. In February 1945, this trio met in the resort city of Yalta, which was located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
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In 1943, a couple of years after World War 2, a laboratory was created for one purpose: to build an atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated just 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site.
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The Potsdam Conference was from July 17 to August 2, 1945. This meeting was the last of the World War 2 meetings held by the “Big Three”: President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. These three had certain agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries, and reparations.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War 2, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first ever deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This explosion immeadidly killed an estimated 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, which killed an estimated 40,000 people.
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The Berlin wall was created on August 13, 1961, and later fell on November 9, 1989. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from the East to West. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War.
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