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| American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army |
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| five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961 |
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| African-American civil rights leader. Started March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. African-American labor organization |
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| American naval base in south Pacific that was bombed by Japanese naval forces in 1941 in an attempt for control of Duth-East oil |
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| FDR's foreign policy that advocated non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America |
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| Acts (1935-1937) that banned U.S involvement in European and Asian wars that soon became World War 2 |
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| U.S supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material in return not for cash, but for reimbursement at end of war |
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| Atlantic Charter/Four Freedoms |
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| series of unalienable fereedoms defined in Atlantic Charter |
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| Internment camps/Japanese relocation |
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| relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps" |
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| U.S Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War 2.ruled that exclusion order was constitutional |
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| government agency that regulated the production and allocation of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States |
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| forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war, was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan |
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| American naval attack against Japanese forces. America won the battle reversing balance of naval power to favor America for remainder of the war |
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| America wanted to overcome WW2, but also the racial prejudices in the U.S |
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| Committee on Fair Employment Practices |
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| government agency sent to investigate and prevent race discrimination in employment |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement during World War 2 |
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| Act passed by congress that promised veterand govt. money for education, housing, and health care. Made low interest loans available to allow then the chance to buy homes when they return |
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| the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War 2 |
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| "detonate- day" the day that Americans dropped the Atomic Bomb in Japan |
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| major German offensive launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes Mountains region of Wallonia in Belgium |
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| wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization |
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| international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. Developed after WW2 |
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| effort, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, which led to the development of the first atomic bomb during World War 2 |
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