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| A statement of common principles and war aims developed by PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT and British Prime minister Winston Churchill at a meeting in August 1941. Discussed military strategy and postwar goals. |
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| Hitler's invasion of Stalingrad for it's vast resources. In February 1943 one of his German armies was defeated by the Soviet army. 100,000 German soldiers surrendered. |
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| Mexicans that came to the United States for a short time as seasonal farm laborers. They were here on contracts as workers, (although most did not understand them because they were written in English) and when the contract was up, they returned to Mexico. |
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| Navajo peoples enlisted in the war were used as "code talkers", they transmitted information among military units through their native language. |
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| (1942) This suspended the rights of Japanese Americans and relocated more than 113,000 people from "military areas". This was in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere |
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| Japanese Nationalists wanted to create a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" where Japan would give orders to the Asian countries. |
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| (1939) The systematic murder of millions of European Jews and others deemed undesirable by Nazi Germany. |
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| An arrangement for the transfer of war suplies, including food, machinery, and services to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United states in WWII. |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the building of the atomic bomb. It involved 125,000 people and cost $2 billion. |
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| (1937) The full scale invasion on China by Japan. 300,000 people were massacured, 25,000 women raped and shortly after murdered. |
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| This gave the U.S. president the power to reorganize the federal government and create new agencies; to establish programs censoring news, information, and abridging civil liberties; to seize foreign-owned property; and award government contracts without bidding. |
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| Was the meeting of U.S. President FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin held in Feburary 1945 to plan the final stages of World War II and postwar arrangements. |
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