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| The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. |
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| An island off the coast of Japan that is famous as the setting of the February–March 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and the Empire of Japan during World War II. What made this battle important was whoever won would have this land to stage a further attack against the other. |
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| This was in response to America interfering with the Japanese trades during World War 2. The bombing of Pearl Harbor got America involved in the fight. December 7, 1941 |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is an intergovernmental organized cartel of twelve developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. OPEC has maintained its headquarters in Vienna since 1965,[2] and hosts regular meetings among the oil ministers of its Member Countries. Indonesia withdrew in 2008 after it became a net importer of oil, but stated it would likely return if it became a net exporter again. |
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| The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest feminist organization in the United States.Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray wrote the organization's Statement of Purpose[6] in 1966 (the original was scribbled on a napkin by Friedan). The statement described the purpose of NOW as "To take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." |
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| Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),[1] was a landmark controversial decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the mother's health. |
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