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| What is the lend-lease act? |
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| Allowed the US to sell, lend, or lease weapons and arms to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S." |
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| Date of attack on Pearl Harbor |
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| What is the Atlantic Charter about? |
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| Drawn up by FDR and Winston Churchill in August 1941. Set goals for the world after the Allies defeat the Nazis. |
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| Who is the Prime Minister of Japan? What about him? |
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| Hideki Tojo; thought that the Japanese could defeat the U.S. in a war. |
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| What are Japanese internment camps? |
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| The president directed the army to relocate more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese Americans to detention centers. Internment camps were crowded and uncomfortable. Conditions were harsh. |
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| What is the court-case on internment camps about? (The case name, desc., etc) |
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| In 1944, in Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. In 1988 Americans issued a formal apology and agreed to give each survivor $20,000. |
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| The name of the mission in North Africa |
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| The Axis Powers were led by Erwin Rommel AKA "The Desert Fox" Hitler ordered Rommel to HOLD THE LINE. Command denied, launched offensive. Rommel surrendered 275,000 @ El Alamein |
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| What was the Battle of El Alamein about? |
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The Allies turned the germans back and prevented them from gaining control of the suez canal
After this victory, the allies started to attack in the east, pinning rommel and his army in tunisia. rommel surrendered may 13, 1943. captured 275k. |
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| The Allies can now attack the Axis powers in Italy and allows them to plan a major invasion of France! |
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| The Allies can now attack the Axis powers in Italy and allows them to plan a major invasion of France! |
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