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This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” The ban on loans remained in effect, and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports.
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The Second World War's North African campaign took place in North Africa from June 10, 1940, to May 13, 1943. Campaigns were fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts, as well as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Between the Allies and the Axis Powers, the campaign was fought.
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The Lend-Lease Act gave President Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality.
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The Pearl Harbor attack was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States against the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, just before 8:00 a.m.
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A naval and air battle during World War II in which a US fleet drove back a Japanese invasion force heading for New Guinea's vital Port Moresby.
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The Battle of Midway took place on June 4–7, 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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After a protracted war, Japanese troops abandon Guadalcanal, leaving the island in Allied hands. Other Allied victories in the Solomon Islands followed the American victory.
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The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, brought together the allied armies' land, air, and sea forces in what became recognized as the world's largest invasion force.
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The last German offensive on the Western Front, an attempt to split the Allied forces and avoid a German invasion. The "bulge" refers to the wedge driven into the Allied defenses by the Germans.
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The Action of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, was a major Pacific War battle fought on the island of Okinawa by US Army and US Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States on August 6 and 9, 1945, were the first time atomic bombs were used on humans, killing tens of thousands of people, obliterating cities, and contributing to the end of World War II.