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Lend Lease
"set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States." -
Atlantic charter
publicly affirmed the sense of solidarity between the U.S. and Great Britain against Axis aggression -
Pearl Harbor
surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. -
Japanese Internment camps
the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II, beginning in 1942 -
Bataan
the first major land battle for the Americans in World War II and one of the most-devastating military defeats in American history. -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō north of Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Guadalcanal
a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Operation torch
Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on a limited scale. -
Island Hopping
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance -
Los Alamos
Manhattan Project administrators found an ideal location for the secret laboratory where they designed and built the world's first atomic weapons -
The Italian Campaign
The Allies agreed to help and decided to use Italy (which was aligned with Germany) as a platform to attack enemy territory in Europe and help divert German resources from the Eastern Front. -
D-day
brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. -
Meeting of yalta
the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe -
Meeting of potsdam
The Big Three worked out many of the details of the postwar order in the Potsdam Agreement, signed on August 1. They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany, which would be divided into four Allied occupation zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
experiments in a new kind of warfare, whose full implications were not entirely understood at the time -
Fall of Berlin
five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.