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| general in the Pacific during WWII |
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| general in Europe during WWII |
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| head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters who fought for black rights during WWII |
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| biggest port of US, held all ships for Pacific Ocean, Japan attacked on December 7, 1941 |
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| FDR, referred to the Americas, no military intervention in their affairs but still had economic control, amendment to the Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine |
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| steadily moving towards choosing a side as the years go on, Congress vs. Roosevelt, started 1935 til 1937 (3 acts) |
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| Allied countries didn't have to have the money to get products from US like before, closest step to actually choosing sides |
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| Atlantic Charter/Four Freedoms |
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| Roosevelt and Churchill (slighted Russia), pledged freedom of the seas and free trade, plus the right of a nation to self-determination; Roosevelt declared everyone has: freedom of speech and of worship, from want and from fear in 1941 State of the Union |
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| Internment camps/Japanese relocation |
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| American-Japanese on the mainland thrown into camps and lost all property |
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| Supreme Court held up executive order of Japanese internment in 1944 on account that it was justified by "military necessity" |
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| set production priorities and pushed for maximum output |
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| thousands of captured Filipino and American soldiers died on way and at camps after Japanese took the Phillipines |
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| island in Pacific, reversed balance of naval power as US destroyed much of Japan's navy |
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| supported by NAACP, asserted blacks' demands for rights and privileges--enforced by Allies' fight to establish ideology of freedom and democracy |
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| Committee on Fair Employment Practices |
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| Roosevelt issued executive order to establish to watch discrimination against blacks in industry |
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| Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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| 1942, organized picketing and sit-ins against Jim Crow restaurants and theaters |
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| promised to give veterans funds for education, housing, and health care and loans to help them start businesses and buy homes |
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| Britain and US launched second front, Normandy beach in France, 6 June 1944, sent false info to be intercepted by Germans about place |
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| greatest casualties for Americans, 1944-1945, Germans drove 55 miles into Allied territory before finally stopped |
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| Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin secretly met to discuss postwar plans; self-determination, leader of China, Soviets got role in Manchurian and Korean governments for entering war against Japan, creation of UN with Security Council |
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| all nations had placce but could be vetoed by Security Council with permanent places for China, France, Britain, Soviet Union, and US; international peacekeeping organization |
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| secret project to develop atomic bomb before Germany |
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