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Franklin Roosevelt
32nd president and the only president to be elected 4 times in a row.He died in office in 1945. -
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Adolf Hitler
He was the Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi Germany. -
US Neutrality Act
Ban on loans such as the "cash and carry act".This act lifted the arms embargo. -
Manhattan Project
An effort to create atomic bombs for the United States during WWII.Albert Einstein started this effort. -
Axis and Allied Powers
The Axis and Allied Powers were the sides of WWII.The Soviet Union,USA,United Kingdom, and France were the Allied Powers and Germany,Italy, Japanese Empire were the Axis powers. -
Rosie the Riveter
Women are finally in the workforce, but the reason is all the men are going to war this is and large change that has made the society what it is today. -
Japanese Embargo
After Japan invaded Indochina the U.S. decided to cut off all of the plane parts and oil to japan.This leads up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor -
Pearl Harbor
After the U.S. had put an embargo on Japan,the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbor,Hawaii. -
Conservation/Rationing/Factory production
This included the red stamps and blue stamps to ration food.Factories doubled the military productions. -
Internment Camps
This was a forced relocation of Japanese Americans due to the scared connection to the Japanese immigrants.They relocated 120,000 Japanese Americans -
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Battle of Midway
This was the turning point in the war.This battle was in the Pacific Theater and was naval battle with the U.S. winning. -
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
156,000 soldiers land on beaches in normandy.This was one of the major battles of WWII -
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Harry Truman
Harry Truman went into office after the death of FDR.He made the decision to drop the bomb on japan to better the war in europe. -
Battle of Berlin (V-E Day)
This was the last major battle of WWII.At the end of this battle was the end of Adolf Hitler's rule. -
The Japanese Surrender (V-J Day)
The surrender of the Imperial Japan. -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
After the attack on Pearl Harbor,The Manhattan Project started to create atomic bombs and we knew that Japan wasn't going to surrender,so The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
African American Discrimination
A.Philip Randolph was a civil rights leader and designed a march on Washington Street -
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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president.He also was a army general.
