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US neutrality
US saw it as '' European war''
- couldn't sell/give arms to nations at war -
African American Discrimination
1941- A. philip Randolph (and 100,000)
planned march on washington
FDR feared
-A riot
-it would like a victory for hitler -
Pearl Harbor
jap launched surprise attack
pear harbor hawaii
over 240 -
Internment Camps
Pearl Harbor = japanese collusion
-more widespread racism
support for harsh treatment
executive order 9066 -
D Day (operation Overlord)
Operation overlord ''
Allied invasion of normandy france
largest seaborne invasion in history -
Harry Truman
early 1945 - FDR dies
truman must now decide invade japan or use atomic bombs ?
manhattan project -
Atomics Bombs / Hiroshima & Nagasaki
killed 40,000
August 15- japans emperor
hirohito surrenders
a new and cruel Bomb
september 2nd - formally
surrendered