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| "Lightning War"=German tactic to take over Europe |
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| Pact between Axis powers (Germany, Italy, & Japan) |
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| U.S. stopped Japanese advances on Australia |
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- Turning point of Pacific war
- Japanese attacked us --> U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers caught 3/4 of Japanese aircraft carriers
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- FDR authorized Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones
- Cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps
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| Native Americans working for the U.S. military sent codes to each other so that the Japanese could not decipher messages |
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- Fair Employment Act prohibited racial discrimination in national defense industry
- FDR made it to keep the March on Washington from happening
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| Proposed and organized March on Washington to protest employment discrimination in national defense industry |
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| Britain, France, U.S., and USSR sandwich Germany by opening a second front |
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| Largest naval engagement where Japanese lost most of sea power and ability to defend Philippines |
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| Battle of Okinawa/Iwo Jima |
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| U.S. capture led to Japanese emperor instructing premier to seek peace terms |
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| Development of first atomic bomb |
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| Occupation and annexation of Austria into Germany |
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- First WW2 conference amongst Big Three (UK, UK, & USSR
- Aim=plan final strategy; main discussion was centered around opening a second front in Western Europe
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| US, UK, & USSR met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization |
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- US, UK, and USSR gathered to decide how to punish defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender
- Other goals=post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of war
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