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President Franklin Roosevelt's sharpest foreign policy break with Herbert Hoover concerned
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Europe
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In 1934, the Soviet Union complained that the United States had little interest in stopping the expansion of
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Japan
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The Neutrality Act of 1935
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included a mandatory arms embargo of both sides during any military conflict.
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In 1937, after Japanese pilots sank the U.S. gunboat Panay in China, President Roosevelt
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accepted Japan's claim that the bombing had been an accident.
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In 1938, the Anschluss
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proclaimed a union between Germany and Austria.
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The Munich agreement of 1938
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was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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By the mid-1940s, Germany had defeated
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In July 1940, opinion polls showed the clear majority of the American public
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believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States.
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The America First Committee
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was a powerful lobby against U.S. involvement in the war.
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By September 1941,
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the United States extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union.
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The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance between
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Japan, Germany, and Italy.
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In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
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President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
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In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the United States
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occurred before the United States declared war on it.
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The Neutrality Act of 1937
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allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the United States if they paid cash.
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In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
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mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions.
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The Battle of Midway in 1942
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In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
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the Soviet Union.
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In 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, the Allies decided they would next invade
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Sicily
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The United States government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
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during the first years after U.S. involvement.
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During World War II, organized labor in the United States
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won automatic union memberships for new defense plant workers.
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Over the course of World War II, inflation in the United States
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was much less serious a problem than during World War I.
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During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee
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was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer.
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During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system
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used electronic pulses to plot course location.
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During World War II, the United States military
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began to relax its practices of racial segregation.
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In 1943, the "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles
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led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits.
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During World War II, American shoppers
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During World War II, Congress abolished the
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CCC and WPA.
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A significant issue in the 1944 election was
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the domestic economy.
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In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
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Paris
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In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River
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to wait for the Russian army to arrive.
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The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was
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the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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In 1945, the first atomic explosion in history took place in
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Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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In 1945, the Japanese surrender to the United States
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Calvin Coolidge
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rejected any suggestion that the United States join the League of Nations but knew that the idea of outlawing war had strong appeal at home
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Frank Kellogg
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meets with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to fashion a multinational nonaggression pact
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Hugo Black
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wrote the majority that upheld the constitutionality of interning Japanese Americans
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Joe Rosenthal
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His Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph would inspire a Marine Corps statue, erected in Washington D.C in 1954
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Harry Truman
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considered the bomb a legitimate weapon to use alongside the more conventional tactics of terror bombing, an economic blockade, and a planned invasion of Japan.
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"Little Boy"
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the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, destroyed three-fourths of the city and killed 80,000 people instantly.
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"Fat Man"
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destroyed two fifths of Nagasaki and Killed 35,000 people on August 9.
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