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Lend Lease
The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
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Atlantic Charter
it established an agenda of preventing global war through free trade, mutual disarmament, increased sovereignty amongst colonial nations, the reduction of imperial aggression, and perhaps most importantly, the creation of a global system of collective security. issued on 14 August 1941
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Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet.
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Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese American internment happened during World War II when the United States government forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes and live in internment camps. These were like prisons. Many of the people who were sent to internment camps had been born in the United States. Most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast.
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Bataan
It was the first major land battle for the Americans in World War II and one of the most-devastating military defeats in American history. The force on Bataan About 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos became prisoners of war. What followed became known as the Bataan Death March one of the worst atrocities in modern history. https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/503f940b-c6ce-4bb0-bca0-fda21d57884e/bataan-death-march-world-war-ii-stories/ -
Battle of Midway
It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the pacific
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/national/military-news/remembering-the-battle-of-midway-78-years-later/291-c9b1e2a3-3366-4298-9c90-80eb92e97b92 -
Guadalcanal
It is known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. Strategically, possession of a Guadalcanal air base was important to control of the sea lines of communication between the United States and Australia.
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The Italian Campaign
was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. It helped secure the Mediterranean Sea for Allied shipping and contributed to the downfall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The new Italian government surrendered to the Allies; however, the Germans were not prepared to lose Italy and seized control.
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Operation Torch
was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. While the French colonies formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Victory in the region would also do a great deal to clear the Mediterranean Sea of Axis shipping and leave it more free for the Allies to use. The Allies planned to invade Morocco and Algeria.
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D-Day
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. D-Day was born in the immediate aftermath of America's entry into the war, and agreement on a 'Germany first' strategy. From the outset the Americans pushed for a cross-Channel invasion of north-west Europe as the most direct way to engage German forces https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/Story/Article/1866944/75-years-later-these-d-day-vets-remember/ -
Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. It would be divided into four post-war occupation zones, . The city of Berlin would also be divided into similar occupation zones. https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/feb/10/yalta-conference-shapes-the-postwar-world-february-1945 -
Island-hopping
US strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply lanes and leaving them to wither. Leapfrogging would allow U.S. forces to reach Japan more quickly and not expend the time, manpower, and supplies to capture every Japanese-held island on the way.
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Battle of Berlin
designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union,It was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. Soviet artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front began shelling Berlin and did not stop until the city surrendered. The next day, Bogdanov's 2nd Guards Tank Army advanced nearly 50 km north of Berlin and then attacked south-west of Werneuchen.
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Los Alamos
the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. By this time, Hitler had been defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued an aggressive war. It Is probably the most famous federal government laboratory. Synonymous with both clandestine and well-known paradigm-shifting research -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, Germany. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of the postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
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Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's conventional bombing raids on Japan.
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Sources: Lead Lease - Guadalcanal
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/october-23/
https://study.com/academy/lesson/atlantic-charter-definition-purpose.html
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
https://www.britannica.com/event/Japanese-American-internment
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-guadalcanal -
Sources: The Italian Campaign - los alamos
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/italian-campaign
https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/war-in-north-africa/operation-torch/
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/museum-campus-guide/campaigns-courage/road-tokyo
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-of-berlin-memorial-tiergarten
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Sources: Meeting at Potsdam - Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
