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Lend Lease
that the u.s. government could lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed which under this policy the united states was able to supply military aid to its foreign allies -
Atlantic charter
the Atlantic Charter was a declaration issued by the United states and Britain, respecting the principles of free trade among nations and the right people. -
Pearl Harbor
japan made a surprise attack on the us naval base at pearl harbor in the Hawaiian archipelago.caused consternation in the united states which shocked them, which led united states to entry into world war ll -
Bataan
The Battle of Bataan is known in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II. -
Japanese Internment Camps
Conditions at Japanese American internment camps were spare, without many amenities. The camps were ringed with barbed-wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, and there were isolated cases of internees being killed. Generally, however, camps were run humanely. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was 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 -
Meeting at Potsdam
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Island-hopping
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance -
Guadacanal
series of World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. -
Operation Torch
offered the opportunity to end the desert war and open the Mediterranean, while trying to meet Joseph Stalin's demands for a second front -
Los Alamos
Los Alamos (Spanish: Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II -
The Italian Campaign
Allied leaders decided to use their massive military resources in the Mediterranean to launch an invasion of Italy, which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the “soft underbelly of Europe.” -
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. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Meeting at Yalta
The Yalta Conference, held 4–11 February 1945, 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. The three states were represented by President Franklin D.\ -
Fall of Berlin
five days after half a million people gathered in east Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin all dividing communist,East Germany from West Germany crumbled. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, 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.