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how did lendlease work? |
-GB was bankrupt by December 1940 and in need of help -the government could sell, lend or lease armaments to any country deemed "vital to the defense of the United States" |
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What happened at the battle of Midway? |
-northwest of Hawaii -enormous battle that went on for four days -American navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one and regained control of the central Pacific |
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What happened at the battle of el Alamein? |
-counteroffensive by the British in North Africa at the Suez canal in Egypt |
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What did the invasion of Italy mean for the Allies? |
Allies now had a route from Italy into Austria and into Germany. |
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What progress did African Americans make during the war in their fight for social justice? |
-FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Commission -CORE or the Congress of Racial Equality made great efforts to resist segregation |
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What were the zoot suit riots? |
Many Mexican Americans were in street gangs are wore zoot suits which were a symbol of rebellion. White sailors stationed at a base in Long Beach invaded Mexican-American communities and attacked zoot-suiters. When Hispanics fought back, the police arrested them and zoot suits were consequently banned in LA. |
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What happened to Japanese Americans during WW2? Why were Americans not outraged? How did the Supreme Court legitimate them? |
They were put in relocation centers after Pearl Harbor like Native Americans had been put on Indian reservations. Americans largely forgot about the Japanese. The Supreme Court legitimated it by deeming the camps constitutional in Korematsu vs. US. |
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What happened in Dresden? |
Incendiary raid created a firestorm that destroyed 3/4 of the city and 135,000 civilians. This forced the German air force to engage the Allies in the air and was severely weakened. |
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What happened in the Normandy invasion? |
Allies came on the coast of Normandy (not where the Germans expected) with 3 million troops and a great array of naval vessels |
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What happened in the Battle of the Bulge? |
Germans drove 55 miles out of desperation |
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What happened at Iwo Jima? |
Americans seized the tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima, 750 miles from Tokyo |
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What happened at Okinawa? |
Japanese sent kamikaze planes against American and British ships -extreme Japanese resistance -50,000 Americans died |
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What was the Manhattan Project? |
US and Britain received word that Nazi scientists were starting to create an atomic bomb. It was possible because of the scientific discovery of uranium. $2 million was put into the Manhattan Project. The bomb became known as the Trinity bomb. |
