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Lend Lease
An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union. TimeToast (https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pres10.socst.ush.dww.lendlease/fdr-and-the-lend-lease-act/) -
The Italian Campaign
the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945. TimeToast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13i7P_V9M4) -
Atlantic Charter
a statement issued on 14 August 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II, months before the US officially entered the war. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwD929yqkn8) -
Pearl harbour
a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. TimeToast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNV8enpVwok) -
Japanese Internment camps
The first internment camp in operation was Manzanar, located in California. Between 1942 and 1945 a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans for varying periods of time in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas. TimeToast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4NoVWq87M) -
bataan
fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan during World War II. The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II. TimeToast (https://www.pbs.org/video/the-bataan-death-march-8jxqi8/) -
Battle of Midway
a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD3BD2lXR-g) -
Guadacanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign ended all Japanese expansion attempts and placed the Allies in a position of clear supremacy. It can be argued that this Allied victory was the first step in a long string of successes that eventually led to the surrender of Japan and the occupation of the Japanese home islands. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2phJcVfRXUs) -
Los Alamos
a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and with support from Canada. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKR9BkKGzw) -
Island-hopping
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance. As Japanese strongholds were isolated, defenders were left to weaken from starvation and disease. TimeToast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knqP-fTtzKI) -
Operation Torch
an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga6d91ObLQ) -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIIN0Ug8wg8) -
Meeting at 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. Timetoast (https://www.c-span.org/video/?468492-1/the-yalta-conference) -
Meeting at Potsdam
to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919,to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_CapsWAO8) -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Timetoast (https://www.history.com/videos/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki) -
Fall of Berlin
the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany. Timetoast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRPP2WXX0U)