merican veterans (eight million) received $4 billion in unemployment benefits over the life of the bill.
great benefit
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he League of Nations to stop German, Italian, and Japanese aggres
The League of nations was fundamental in stoping the aggression of the violent countries trying to have power over other countries.
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Wagner-Rogers Bill,
an act to allow twenty thousands German-jewish children into the United States
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Americans celebrated the end of the war.
after Americans ended the war now they have stability
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Bracero Program
People contracted from Mexico work in the United States.
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lack women were forced to work at night to keep them separate from whites
Why?
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The all-Black pilot squadrons, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, completed more than 1,500 missions,
Black people were pilot squadrons
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More than one million African Americans fought in the war
black American people served in the war
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A. Philip Randolph,
president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping car porters.
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World War II
it affected different countries
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ver 350,000 women served in several all-female units of the military branches.
Women also joined the military
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Hiroshima was
Two bombs called "Fat Man and Little Boy" were launched in Hiroshima
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ost eighteen million men served in World War II.
18 million of people volunteered in serving in the World War II
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e Manhattan Project,
an atomic bomb
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Dwight Eisenhower
he wrote two speeches: one for success and one for failure.
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D-Day,
the largest amphibious assault.
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hesitant
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Big Three
Big Three: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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, the Army Air Force (AAF) sent hundreds (and eventually thousands) of bombers to England in preparation for a massive strategic bombing campaign against Germany.
The Army Air Force was helping in bombing Germany.
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Japan also assaulted Hong Kong,
that attack lead the United States into a global conflict
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Pearl Harbor
where the Japanese launched a surprise attack
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It was the Soviet Union that broke Hitler’s army. Twenty-five million Soviet soldiers and civilians died during the
The Soviet Union had recruited enough soldiers to broke down Hitler's army.
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. It split into three pieces and stood at the gates of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad, but supply lines now stretched thousands of miles, Soviet infrastructure had been destroyed, partisans harried German lines, and the brutal Russian winter arrived. Germany had won massive gains but the winter found Germany exhausted and overextended.
Germany its obsessed to win territories. This is so sad. Its destroying a lot of lives and stability.
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Children were sent far into the countryside to live with strangers to shield them from the bombings.
that is so sad because parents are being separated from their children. The worst fact... sending them with strangers.
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he Blitz
a bombing campaign against cities and civilians.
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Blitzkrieg
Moder army= tanks, planes, and motorized infantry
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Allies to intervene.
Britan and France were having hope for the Allies to intervene with the Germany army.
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The European war began when the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland on September 1, 1939
The Europeans joined the war when German invaded Poland.
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the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
an agreement with the soviet of Poland where they split the two powers and promised coordinated thereafter.
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Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia and began to make demands on Poland. Britain and France promised war. And war came.
Britain and France also joined the war
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Hitler
Hitler was continuing in pushing German expansion.
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Sudetenland,
"a large, ethnically German area of Czechoslovakia".
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fascists
what it means?
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Mao Zedong
He build his force of 1.2 million members by the end of the war.
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The Japanese military was armed with modern rifles, artillery, armor, and aircraft. By 1940, the Japanese navy was the third-largest and among the most technologically advanced in the world.
The Japanese military was really strong. It was the third-largest military most advanced.
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Americans retreated toward isolationism
Americans didnt not get involved because their military was weak.
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but the United States lacked both the will and the military power to oppose the Japanese invasion
The United States couldn't help China because they didnt have much power as Japanese.
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Between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, and tens of thousands of women were raped, when the Japanese besieged and then sacked Nanjing.
The Japanese launched invasion to China, which killed less than 400 hundred million of people and women were raped.
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The military took over Japanese policy. And in the military’s eyes, the conquest of China would not only provide for Japan’s industrial needs, it would secure Japanese supremacy in East Asia.
What did the military did in China?
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Stimson Doctrine
The Chinese protest.
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Chiang Kai-shek
he was a leader, who joined to the League of Nations for assistance against Japan.
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Japanese military triumphed over the more moderate civilian government. Japan committed itself to aggressive military expansion.
Japan did not only become the country who was taking territory of other countries, he also become a country to aggressive military expansion.
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stagnating
What is stagnatig?
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war that would last thirteen years and claim the lives of over thirty-five million people.
So because of the September 18 Incident and the Manchurian Incident, it lead to a war of 13 years?
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Manchukuo
Manchukuo---> Chinese had power of all Manchuria, which established to the nation of Manchukuo.
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The invasion was swift
What it means?
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the Japanese Imperial Army ordered a full-scale invasion of Manchuria
Japanese was elaborating to take the territory of Manchuria.
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And when it ended, the United States found itself alone as the world’s greatest superpower. Armed with the world’s greatest economy, it looked forward to the fruits of a prosperous consumers’ economy
From what I am understanding, at the end of the World War II, the United States had the greatest economy?
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fearsome technology
what technology?
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genocide
What is genocide?
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The 1930s and 1940s were trying times. A global economic crisis gave way to a global war that became the deadliest and most destructive in human history. Perhaps eighty million individuals lost their lives during World War II.
World War II, it was due to a global crisis, which millions of people died.
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