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The Great Depression
A period of extreme poverty for America, where no one got off easy, agriculture was nonexistent, and it changed the government so radically, it was unrecognizable. -
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Aircraft Carriers
Ships that played a pivotal role in the Allies winning the war. The U.S.'s production of these things was so fast, no one could keep up, getting a huge advantage in both numbers and mobility. While the Japanese technically invented them, it was the U.S. that refined them, ultimately leading to their victory, and Japan's defeat. -
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War Bonds
Loans used by the U.S. military taken from the people to fund their operations, offering benefits to citizens who buy them and the promise of returned money after a set period of time. -
The starting place of WWII
Germany's invasion of Poland is widely agreed on being the starting point of WWII. with france and the U.K. declaring war two days after. In the invasion, Germany used a new tactic of warfare, Blitzkrieg, which entailed sending everything at your enemy at once on land, air, and sea, changing the way war was conducted forever. -
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World War II
A massive series of battles between the Allied and the Axis powers in multiple theaters, most notably the pacific and the European, where new war practices were established, old war tactics were outlawed, and Germany changed the world forever in many ways. -
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Auschwitz
The biggest of the Nazi concentration camps, that killed over 1 million Jews and other enemies of the Nazi's. People there were either used for slave labor or subject to insane experiments by the resident psychopath, Dr. Mengele. It was decommissioned after being invaded by the Russians in 1945. -
Lend-lease Act
A U.S. act passed by congress that allowed President Roosevelt to sell, lend, or lease military equipment to countries he deemed vital to American security. It was away to help other nations without actively joining the war. -
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The Philippines
Taken by the Japanese in 1941 shortly after declaring war with America, the Philippines, while never really being controlled that well, rebelled the entire time until being taken back by America in 1944, with the help of a communist uprising. -
Pearl Harbor
The first military attack ever aimed at America, where the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii, killing thousands and sinking a few vessels. While ultimately being a failed operation,this event made America join the war. -
The Final Solution
The final solution to the jewish question, when Hitler ordered the systematic genocide of all Jews in existence(or at least all Jews in Germany) -
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Rationing
Strategy employed by many countries during WW2, limiting resources available to civilians, and giving the remainder to soldiers, stuff like sugar, coffee, and greece -
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Japanese Atrocities
War crimes committed by the Japanese where they raped, killed, and pillaged a multitude of islands, some being Manila, all of Singapore, Nauru, and Palawan. They also murdered prisoners of war, and slaughtered multiple singular locations. -
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Island Hopping
The strategy employed by the U.S. military to combat the Japanese in the pacific who took multiple islands around their mainland. They would take smaller, loosely defended islands, build makeshift military bases, and attack other islands using those bases, it eventually got them to mainland Japan, but not without many casualties due to battle, diseases, and the guerilla style of fighting. -
Doolittle's raid
An attack by the U.S. against Japan where they took bombers and dropped incendiary bombs all over industrial areas of Japan, hoping to cripple their production. The flames were massive, a lot of people died, and we lost 15 out of 24 planes because of China. -
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Coral Sea
The first naval battle fought entirely with aircraft, fought between Japan, and America and Australia over multiple ports in the south pacific. -
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Midway
After Doolittle's raid, the Japanese wanted to push the Americans back, so they decided to surprise attack their naval base on Midway, but the U.S. saw it coming, and launched a counter-attack, destroying four Japanese carriers, 248 planes, and killing 3,000 sailors, the first major allied victory in the pacific theater. -
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Guadalcanal
Series of land and sea clashes between the allies and the Japanese on and around Guadalcanal, striking as the allies' first major offensive in the pacific theater. -
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The Manhattan Project
The U.S.'s Nuclear program employed after intel of similar things happening in Germany, eventually leading to the development and testing of the world's first atomic bomb, led by Robert Oppenheimer. -
Rosie the Riveter
A huge icon of feminism introduced by the illustrator Norman Rockwell of a woman in the workplace doing the job a man usually does, that went way further than WWII but lost prominence over time. -
Sicily and Italy
The allied invasion of Sicily, and the second largest amphibious operation in the Japanese theater, which led to the surrender of Italy in the war. -
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Operation Fortitude
Massive deception by the Allies in two parts on the North and the South to the Nazi's to make them unsure of where the D-Day landings would take place, although it worked, it did not stop the many casualties from the Normandy landings -
Operation Overlord
The operation led primarily by Dwight D. Eisenhower that was the first part of the battle of Normandy, it was the event that people say changed the tides of battle against the Germans for the rest of the war. -
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Battle of the bulge
The Germans' final major offensive, a failed attempt to push the allies back from the homeland. Nicknamed the battle of the bulge because of the wedge the germans drew through allied lines. -
Iwo Jima
Known as one of the bloodiest battles in WWII, the U.S. Marines invaded the Island of Iwo Jima to use it as a main staging area for the invasion of mainland Japan. They eventually took it, but not without the loss of 7,000, and the murder of all but 200 of the people on the island. -
Okinawa
The final and biggest amphibious landing in the pacific theater, with huge casualties on both sides on Japanese mainland island, Okinawa, which the U.S. won, taking half the casualties the Japanese took, a hefty 100,000. -
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Plan to end WWII (the potsdam conference)
A meeting between the three heads of state, Truman, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss both what to do with Germany and the unconditional surrender of Japan. -
Little Boy
The first Nuclear weapon to have ever been used in a war, dropped on Hiroshima, an island in Japan. -
Enola Gay
The first aircraft to drop the atomic bomb, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. -
The Fat Man
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Unconditional Surrender
The Emperor of Japan accepts the terms of the Potsdam Conference, and surrenders, officially signing the document, crippling their navy to never be able to be imperialistic again, and ending WWII.
