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Spanish civil war
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broke out in July 1936 when fascist rebels led by General Francisco Franco attacked the democratically elected Republican government, German and Italy gave Franco help, but the Soviet Union provided little aid to the Republican Loyalists, Loyalists were defeated in 1939 and Franco built a fascist bulwark in southwestern Europe
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D Day
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General Eisenhower launched the largest amphibious assault in world history on June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers pushed forward to get the beachhead despite the rough seas and German machine gun firing, 2,500 men were killed so those that survived the attack were very lucky
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Appeasement
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Was offered to Hitler in September 1938, the terms would give the Sudetenland to Germany if Hitler accepted the Chamberlain's offer and promised he would make no more territorial claims in Europe.
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Serviceman's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
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enacted in 1944, offered 16 million veterans job training and unemployment compensation while they looked for jobs; and low-interest loans to purchase homes, farms, and small businesses.
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Winston Churchill
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absolutely epic and wonderful British prime minister during WWII who showed himself to be the antithesis of Neville Chamberlain in that he believed that Hitler was a legitimate threat and that Britain would fight anywhere and everywhere to crush him--this man's confidence and resolve was so fierce and so contagious that the RAF became the first force to defeat Hilter in the Battle of Britain
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Holocaust
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this was a small event that took place from 1933 to 1945 in which Adolf Hitler set up concentration camps for the Jews and other groups (though mostly Jews because they're the WORST) in which the prisoners had to work for nothing and were dehumanized in every way until they were sent off to the gas chambers or shot on a death march
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Lend-Lease Act
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act proposed by FDR in 1941 that allowed the Brits to get arms from the U.S. and pay it all back later; this resulted in $50 billion for the U.S.
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Adolf Hitler
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Dictator of Nazi Germany who received popular support because of how he brought Germany out of the depression as well as denouncing restrictions made onto Germany after World War I. He ran Nazi-Germany under a racially-motivated ideology, causing a mass genocide of 5.5 million Jews and other races he deemed inferior.
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Pearl Harbor
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United States' naval base located near Honolulu, Hawaii which was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, causing the US to enter World War II.
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Battle of Midway
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One of the most significant naval victories of the USN that destroyed the Japanese navy thwarting their attempts to take control of the Pacific as a dominant naval power.
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Manhattan Project
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The top secret project authorized by the government to create a nuclear bomb before the Germans could. It took thousands of Americans to create the atomic bomb, which they first tested in July, 1945, in New Mexico.
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Yalta Conference
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The secret meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in the U.S.S.R. to talk about the postwar world; some of what was decided there was that the eastern European countries would get a vote to determine the future of their country, that they would support the new leader in China, and the creation of the United Nations.
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Selective Service Act
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The act that made a list of men eligible for the military in case of a draft, which was used for World War II.
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