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kellog-briand pact
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pact of paris- was signed on August 27, 1928 by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other states. The pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense.[
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washington conference
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convention to settle the tense american situtaion and the dangerous naval race between us and japan. teo major agreements nine power treaty and 4 power treaty.
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adolf hitler
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shrewd charismatic leader was bitter about ww1. blamed jews for all of germanys ills
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nye committee
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was a committee in the United States Senate which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I. created neutrality acts
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americas first commitee
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was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Peaking at 800,000 members, it was likely the largest anti-war organization in American history. Started in 1940, it became defunct after the attack upon Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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war production board
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nelson in charge. allowed buisnesss to claim rapid depreciation and huge tax credits for new plants and awarded cost-plus contracts for urgently needed goods.
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fair employment practices commitee
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banned racial discrimination in war industries
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zoot suit riots
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a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that erupted in Los Angeles, California between European-American sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. While Mexican Americans were the primary targets of military servicemen, African American and Filipino/Filipino American youth were also targeted
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d day
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normandy invasion
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manhattan project
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united stated spent 2 billion to develop an atomic bomb. based on fission of radioactive uranium and plutonium.
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hiroshima and nagasaki
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bombed by us
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chaing kia sheik
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was a political and military leader of 20th century China.
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hideki tojo
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the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from 18 October 1941 to 22 July 1944. Some historians hold him responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to America entering World War II. After the end of the war, Tōjō was sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and hanged on 23 December 1948.
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charles degaulle
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French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969 ignored by fdr
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joseph stalin
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was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Stalin assumed the leading role of the state after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924, and gradually marginalized his competitors until he had become the unchallenged leader.
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a phillip randolph
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was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.
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henry stimson
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the U.S. military as Secretary of War during the Roosevelt administration in World War II.
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cordell hull
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was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the Father of the United Nations.
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veterans of future wars
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was an organization formed as a prank by Princeton University students in 1936.[1] The group was a satirical reaction to a bill granting the early payment of bonuses to World War I veterans as articulated in their manifesto:
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sudetenland
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is the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia associated with Bohemia. taken over by hitler
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nazi-soviet pact
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enabled germany to avoid a 2 front war and russians were awarded a generous slice of eastern poland.
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cash and carry/ lend lease acts
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was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on 21 September 1939, as World War II was spreading throughout Europe. It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1936. The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation. The purpose was to hold neutrality between the United States and European countries while still giving material aid to Britain
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lend lease acts
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was the name of the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.
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mothers crusade
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These American mothers, part of the Mother's Crusade against Lend Lease, were demanding that their Congressmen vote against HR1776 (the Lend Lease Bill). And many did just that. The mothers here were right that Lend Lease was one more step toward war.
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tripartite pact
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also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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axis powers
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was aimed at soviet union but threatened the whole world. also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II.[1] The three major Axis powers—Germany, Japan, and Italy—were part of a military alliance on the signing of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940, which officially founded the Axis powers.
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pearl harbor
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was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. The next day the United States declared war on Japan resulting in their entry into World War II.
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winston churchill
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a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).
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battle of stalingrad
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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia between 17 July 1942 and 2 February 1943. The battle involved more participants than any other on the Eastern Front, and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest in the history of warfare, with the upper estimates of combined casualties coming to nearly two million. The outcome was disastrous for Germany, making its victory in the East impossible. The battle marked the turning of the tide of war in favour of the Allies.
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north african campain
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Wars and Battles, 1940-1943
The North African Campaign, or Desert War, took place in the North African desert during World War II between 1940 and 1943. The North African Campaign was fought mainly for two reasons. The first was the Suez Canal, which was crucial to controlling the Middle East. The second was Middle Eastern oil resources. Control of Egypt was especially important because it sat at the center of a vital geographic-strategic network that included the Eastern Mediterranean, Abyssina (invaded by the Italians in 1936 and liberated by Britain in 1941), the Middle East as well as the Suez Canal. |
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office of price administration
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U.S. federal agency in World War II, established to prevent wartime inflation.
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executive order 9066
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United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.
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nisei
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are considered the second generation; and the grandchildren of the Japanese-born immigrants
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atlantic charter
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a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice."
The Atlantic Charter served as a foundation stone for the later establishment of the United Nations, setting forth several principles for the nations of the world, including -- the renunciation of all aggression, right to self-government, access to raw materials, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of aggressor nations |
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big 3 conference
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Yalta Conference. heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. Mainly, it was intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
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battle of the bulge
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launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes Mountains region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
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manchuria
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historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia
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USS missouri
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Four Iowa-class battleships were built during World War II including the USS Missouri. assigned to the Pacific Third Fleet and steamed into Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1944. The Missouri secured its place in history as the site of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allied Forces on Sept. 2, 1945, ending World War II.
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