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Lend Lease
The Lend-Lease Act had given President Roosevelt unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Island-hopping
The US “island hopping” strategy targeted key islands, while hopping over strongly defended islands, cutting off supply lanes and leaving them to wither. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii -
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese American internment happened during World War II when the United States government forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to leave their homes and live in internment camps. -
Bataan
commander of all ground troops on Bataan, surrendered his thousands of sick, enervated, and starving troops. The siege of Bataan was 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's decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States. -
Guadacanal
Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack and took control of an air base under construction. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa. While the French colonies formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. -
The Italian Campaign
The Italian Campaign was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany. -
D-Day
Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France. Ground troops then landed across five assault beaches. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Meeting at Yalta
was 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. -
Fall of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. -
Los Alamos
the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site. This test proved that scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Potsdam Conference is perhaps best known for President Truman's conversation with Stalin, during which time the President informed the Soviet leader that the United States had successfully detonated the first atomic bomb