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Treaty of Versailles
A peace treaty to end WW1 -
Lend Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
tri-partite act
greement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Saburō Kurusu and Galeazzo Ciano. -
Embargo
An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. -
Atlantic charter
the Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
pearl harbor
the japanese attacked the american navy in the pacific base at pearl harbor -
Japanese Internment
the relocation of japanese americans to internment camps kept away from society for fear of japanese spies -
Bataan Death Mark
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
racial conflicts
there were race riots in detroit, alabama, L.A., and parts in texas -
Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
d-day
the day that allied forces landed in normandy -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg -
Battle of Okinawa
a series of battles fought in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II, the 1 April 1945 invasion of Okinawa itself. -
roosevelts death
the day that FDR died -
Mussolini's Death
Mussolini Dies -
hitlers death
hitler supposedly killed himself and had his troops set him on fire to avoid going to trial -
potsdam confernce
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Hiroshima
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima -
nagasaki
japanese city that the us dropped the second atom bomb "fat man" on -
japanese surrender
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of World War -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan
