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This Act allowed European democracies to purchase war materials from the United States, though only cash-and-carry. By passing this act, the United States would avoid loans, torpedoes, and war debts.
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The North African Campaign was a series of battles for control of North Africa. These battles were strategically important for both the Western Allies and the Axis powers.
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The Lend-Lease Act let the U.S government lend or lease war supplies. This allowed the United States to support its allies while still remaining neutral.
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Pearl Harbor was attacked by Imperial Japanese Navy airpower in a surprise military strike.
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The U.S. Naval airplanes prevented the Japanese from occupying New Guinea's Port Moresby.
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This was a very important naval battle because this determined who would secure dominance in the Pacific.
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After a long campaign, the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal, leaving the island in the allied hands.
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On D-day, also known as the Normandy landings, troops from the UK, the US, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of northern France.
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Allied forces were attacked in the Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France by German forces.
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The invasion was part of Operation Iceberg, a complicated invasion and occupation plan for the Ryukyu Islands. Okinawa provided Allied forces with an airbase from which to attack Japan, as well as an advanced anchorage for Allied fleets.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Three days after the bomb dropped on Hiroshima a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.