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Pact of Steel
Japan joined the Pact of Steel with Germany and Italy (September 1940). -
Pearl Harbor
Having joined the Pact of Steel with Germany and Italy (September 1940), 7 December 1941 Japan made a surprise attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. -
«Lend-Lease Act»
«Lend-Lease Act» granted aid to European countries in the war against Germany. -
The Russian Front
The American intervention sanctioned the failure of Hitler's Blitzkrieg, who in the mid-1942 still ruled most of Europe. -
Atlantic Charter,
After granting aid to European countries in the war against Germany («Lend-Lease Act», March1941), on 14 August 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter, which promoted ideals of democracy and cooperation. -
Hitler
The American intervention sanctioned the failure of Hitler's Blitzkrieg, who in the mid-1942 still ruled most of Europe.
(Declaration of war to USA) -
The «United Nations»
At the beginning of 1942, the «United Nations» were created in Washington: an alliance made up of 26 countries engaged in the war against Fascism, which put an end to the United States isolationism, as they were pledged to tackle the Japanese expansionism in Asia. -
«Asia for the Asiatics!».
In the first months, the Japanese took lndochina and much of the Pacific Islands, replacing the European colonialism by the motto «Asia for the Asiatics!». -
El Alamein
The British counteroffensive led by Montgomery defeated the Italian German troops at El Alamein in Africa (October 1942), thus causing their retreat from the Mediterranean. -
Guadalcanal Island
The first American victories in the Pacific (spring 1942) were followed by the conquest of Guadalcanal Island (August 1942-February 1943).In China the nationalists and communists alliance attacked the Japanese.
