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Island Hopping
A strategy created by military forces to capture certain Japanese Islands in the Pacific and bypassing others, leading to the Japanese mainland. -
Lend Lease
Allowed for loans of war materials to any country the president deemed vital to help defend the U.S -
Atlantic Charter
It was a joint declaration released by FDR and Churchill the sense of solidarity between the U.S. and Great Britain against Axis aggression -
Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise sneak attack on the U.S by Japan.Pearl Harbor launched the US into World War II -
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Japanese Internment Camp
First internment camp in operation was Manzanar, located in east-central California.10 internment camps were opened holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans. -
Bataan
After the attack on Pearl Harbor American and Filipino troops fought for three months but eventually surrendered to the Japanese and were forced into Bataan Death March. -
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Battle of Midway
The battle of midway was mostly fought through aircraft.The U.S destroyed Japanese first-line carrier strength.This battle was meant to end the further threat from the Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
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Guadalcanal
World War II land and sea clashes between the Allied forces and the Japanese on and around Guadalcanal. -
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Operation Torch
The allied forces invaded French North Africa to draw axis forces away from the eastern front. -
Los Almos
Top secret research laboratory kept in the mountains of New Mexico.This was referred to Project Y or The Manhattan project and was used to help build the atomic bomb. -
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The Italian Campaign
Allied forces decided to use their massive military resources in the Mediterranean to launch an invasion of Italy and draw away the axis forces away from Nazi-operated Europe. -
D-Day
Allied force invaded Normandy beach to liberate France from the Nazi. -
Meeting at Yalta
Yalta was a discussion of the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Fall of Berlin
Soviet forces attacked from the north, east and south and later invaded.This was the last major offensive of the European theatre of World War II. -
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Meeting at Potsdam
Conference held at Potsdam, Germany to negotiate term to end World War II. Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Henry Truman were apart of this meeting. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S had secretly made an atomic bomb and these bombs were dropped in Hiroshima 1st and killed 80,000 people died and couple more after due to radiation exposure.The next bomb was released in Nagasaki where 40,000 people died.