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| 6363494645 | Neutrality Act | law that kept the US out of WW2 | 0 | |
| 6363494646 | Lend Lease Act | law that said the US can give or sell arms to other nations for the protection of the US from those countries | 1 | |
| 6363494647 | Fascism | form of government that glorifies the state over the individual; demands a strong central government | 2 | |
| 6363494648 | Adolf Hitler | fascist chancellor of Germany; started the rise of the Nazi Party; broke the Versailles Treaty and pretty much started WW2 | 3 | |
| 6363494649 | German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | deal between Russia and Germany that split Poland in half; Germany takes west and Russia takes east | 4 | |
| 6363494650 | blitzkrieg | "lightning war"; tactic to go in with as much force as you can (airforce and tanks) | 5 | |
| 6363494651 | Rape of Nanking | the capital of China was invaded by the Japanese; over 50% of the people that lived there were killed either by torture, killing competitions, or rape | 6 | |
| 6363494652 | Pearl Harbor | Japan's bombing of the US Pacific Ocean naval base; hit us hardcore; December 7th, 1941 | 7 | |
| 6363494653 | Navajo "Code Talkers" | these people would talk in the Navajo language since it was not a written language; this was useful as the Axis Powers could not translate the code | 8 | |
| 6363494654 | internment camps | camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent | 9 | |
| 6363494655 | D-Day | battle on the beaches of Normandy; June 6th, 1944; largest amphibious invasion in the history of the world; also known as Operation Overlord | 10 | |
| 6363494656 | General Eisenhower | man who planned the D-Day invsion; hand delivered several thousand letters that he personally addressed that explained to the soldiers exactly their jobs for the invasion | 11 | |
| 6363494657 | Arsenal of Democracy | weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia | 12 | |
| 6363494658 | Tehran Conference | meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the Big 3 agreed to focus on Germany and then Japan; 1st meeting of the Big 3 | 13 | |
| 6363494659 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last offensive battle; over 10,000 US troops surrendered; Patton drove over 102 miles in 2 days to help support Allied lines; Russia eventually came in and helped | 14 | |
| 6363494662 | Douglas MacArthur | US commander of the Pacific; "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction" (what a lame coverup) | 15 | |
| 6363494663 | Bataan Death March | event in which the Japanese marched US POWs to labor camps; they marched over 60 miles in the blazing Filipino summer; there were 80,000 soldiers that were captured | 16 | |
| 6363494664 | Island hopping | the US tactic of taking over little islands bit by bit to get close enough to bomb Japan | 17 | |
| 6363494665 | Battle of Midway | battle that was 100% naval; midway between the US and Asia; 6 months after Pearl Harbor; turning point of the war in the Pacific; US cracked the Japanese radio code; US found out about the attack on midway and sneak attacked with aircraft carriers; result was that the Japanese fleet was no longer a threat in the war | 18 | |
| 6363494666 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers; they added extra explosives, extra gas, and carried a short sword to take their life | 19 | |
| 6363494667 | Iwo Jima | battle that took place on a volcanic island; Japanese hid and traveled through cave and tunnel networks; this was where the famous Flag Raising photograph was taken | 20 | |
| 6363494668 | Battle of Okinawa | largest amphibious assault in the Pacific; more people were killed than Hiroshima and Nagasaki and most casualties were civilians | 21 | |
| 6363494669 | Fire bombing | tactic that is essentially napalm; US did this to Japan and ended up destroying 50% of the country; we only lost about 240 airmen in the attacks | 22 | |
| 6363494670 | Manhattan Project | this event's objective was to create the atomic bomb; had to split an atom in a controlled manner; Einstein came to the US and helped; thousands of scientists came to help; cost $2 billion to make 1 bomb; located in Los Alamos, New Mexico | 23 | |
| 6363494671 | Hiroshima | August 6th, 1945; Little Boy was dropped and killed 70,000 immediately and then twice that much by radiation and cancer; was targeted because of its poor defense and high population | 24 | |
| 6363494672 | Nagasaki | place where Fat Man was dropped; US dropped warning pamphlets 3 days before dropping the bomb; 40,000 people were killed; most of the shock was absorbed in the hills and mountains; this place has a higher radiation poisoning | 25 | |
| 6363494673 | VJ Day | September 2nd, 1945; the Japanese surrender and marked the end of the war; japan has never had a military since; the unofficial surrender was 6 days after Nagasaki | 26 |
