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| October 29, 1929, so many shares of the stock were sold that it completely collapsed. Stock values dropped 10-15 billion dollars. |
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| Americans surrender in the Philippines and the Japanese have them walk 65 miles with no water, if you fell or stumbled, you were shot. |
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| American, Canadian , and British troops cross the English Channel on June 6, 1944. Landed on Omaha beach and reached Paris by September. |
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| Americans bombed until there seemed to be no living thing on the island. 20000 Japanese troops hid in Mount Suribachi. They waited until teh Americans were on shore before ambushing them. 1 of every 3 American marines were killed. On |
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| September 1, 1939- Germany invades Poland, starting WWII. On September 3, Britain and France, allies of Poland, declared war on Germany. Germany won Poland within weeks. |
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| American Major General that took North Africa from the Germans. He was Germany's best General Rommel's most respected American General. He also staged a dummy base in Britain for D-day, drawing most of Germany's troops away from the real point of attack. |
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| Main forces: Britain , USA (after 1941), Canada, Russia |
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| A bill providing returning WWII veterans college education and one year of unemployment compensation. |
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| US won't import, export, or be involved with across the border issues |
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| US won't form allies or join any wars in other countries. |
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| Prime Minister of Britain 1919-1937. He decided he was to old to deal with the war he knew was coming with Germany. |
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| Chancellor of Germany, turned Germany into a dictatorship, pro-Nazi, anti-Jew, believed in a "Master Race." Started WWII, comtted suicide 1945 as the USSR was entering Berlin. |
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| A marine corps base for the US military training facility in North Carolina. |
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| cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. |
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| Japanese attack US naval base in Hawaii- Pearl Harbor.With no declaration of war, they destroy everything there, the American air carriers were safe- they were not there at the time. |
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| Paying a little bit now, giving the rest later. |
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| President Roosevelt's efforts in trying to bring the United States out of the Great Depression. |
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| December 1944, Hitler launched a counteroffensive, Hitler's generals were against the paln, but followed orders. Stormy weather grounded the Allies planes and blocked their observation. This only created a large bulge in the Allied lines, not even reaching to Meuse River, Germany's first objective. German deaths- 80,000 to 100,000 men. American losses- 75,000. |
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| The Japanese controlled it. First island hopping canal. The US lands at Guadalcanal. Fought in the air, land, and sea. The battle lasted 6 months- starving Japan into leaving. Japan lost 15,000 men. |
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| Began June 4, 1942. Lasted for 3 days. The Japanese planned to attack Midway, but the USA broke their code and knew of the attack. 15 brave small planes flew to Hawaii to give word back to US, only one survived. General Nemitz uses aircraft carriers. The first major victory against Jan., it is a turning point in the war. |
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| Supreme Allied Commander in Europe |
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| 1932-1945. Declared war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. President of the United States. |
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| lightning war (used by the Germans), planes, tanks, troops |
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| Latin American policy pursued by the administration of the US president F. Roosevelt. Non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. |
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| suicide pilots, a method used by the Japanese. |
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| in the Suez Canal, what all the countries in Europe needed to continue the war. |
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| prime minister of Britain during World War II |
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| "the desert fox," Germany's best General |
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| in NC, to train units and individual marines for services in the Pacific theater. |
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| US declared war on Japan. |
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| The three R's- Roosevelt's "New Deal," the efforts he took to end the Great Depression. |
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| In 1931. Prime Minister Tojo (a former general) was in charge of the attack without a declaring of war. They invaded Manchuria in 1941 with no declaration of war again. The current prime minister of Japan objected to Japan's way of battle, so they assassinated him. |
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| December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor with again no declaration of war, Thousands died, civilians and soliders. Brought US into WWII. |
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| After dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, US dropped notes on Japan begging them to surrender, that they didn't want any more deaths. When Japan didn't respond, we dropped our last atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito announced that the honorable thing to do at this point was surrender. August 14, 1945- Japan surrenders. |
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| President of the United States during the beginning of the Great Depression. 1929-1933, he was blamed for the Great Depression because he did nothing about it. |
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| National hit as an American woman working in factories in World War II. "We can do it" posters. |
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| Camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor were Americans held Japanese-Americans because people feared they might be spies. |
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| Roosevelt's act that supplies can be leased to Great Britain and other countries fighting the Axis powers. |
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| May 8, 1945- the day the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany. |
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| Spain's dictator, declared Spain neutral in WWII. |
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| largest artillery base in the world |
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| Middle East in the drought |
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| elderly people got a steady income |
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| 1942, Japan planned an invasion of Australia, the last stronghold for US and British troops. Sailed across this sea, but American navy were already there. 3 day battle between two fleets that never each other. It was the first naval battle in history fought entirely from the air. Australia was never threatened again. |
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| to save millions of lives on both sides from the invasion of Japan Roosevelt had planned, the new president Truman dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. |
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| 360 miles SE of Japan. This is were Japan's new style of kamikaze was made- suicide pilots. On April 1, US marines landed. There was no resistance for 2 days. 100,000+ Japanese soldiers died. Citizens of Okinawa killed themselves. |
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| He decided that since Japanese would never surrender and didn't like surprises, he would drive them mad. In his "island hopping," he would sometimes skip islands completely, or cut off supplies. |
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| He decided that since Japanese would never surrender and didn't like surprises, he would drive them mad. In his "island hopping," he would sometimes skip islands completely, or cut off supplies. |
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| President in 1945, decided to drop atomic bomb on Japan. |
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| Italy, Japan, Germany. Made plans to take over the world. |
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| Hitlers "solution" to the "problem" Germany had with the Jews and other undesirables. They would be immigrated to labor camps were they would do work for the good of the Fatherland. This was a lie. He really sent them to the camps to be killed or to wait until they could be killed. |
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| MacArthur would play leap frog with the Japanese islands. Skip a couple, cut supplies on others. |
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| the project developing and finally dropping the first atomic bomb |
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| Victory in Japan day. When the Japanese surrendered to the Americans. |
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| "Divine ruler." Thought by the Japanese to be invincible. The emperor, finally announcing in 1945 that surrender was honorable at this point. |
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| Former general, when the prime minister objected to him, he was assassinated, and Tojo became the minister. |
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| food, feed, fiber; Commissioner of Agriculture. |
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| VJ day- Japanese surrender |
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