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In the military service, African Americans were placed in inferior positions due to a military that still enacted ________________.
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Branch that declared war in 1941.
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These acts banned arms to be shipped to either side, and stated that US citizens were to bear the consequences should they travel on ships that belong to a nation at war.
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Name of the camps inhabited by 112.000 Japanese and Japanese-American who were imprisoned under suspicion due to their Japanese descent.
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President that won by a landslide in 1940. He was elected president 4 times.
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At the beginning, the USA adopted a policy of __________ because they wanted to focus on coming out of the Great Depression.
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Act that allowed the US to go on doing business with other countries. Because of this act, the US was said to be the 'arsenal of democracy.'
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Name of the eight-point charter signed by Churchill and Roosevelt
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Conference in which Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met to demand the 'unconditional surrender' of Japan among other points. During this meeting, Truman was notified that a test of a new atomic weapon had been successful.
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Conference in which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss hot political questions. For instance: What to do with Germany? Also, each leader had their own political agenda. In the case of Roosevelt, he lobbied for the United Nations, apart from attempting to expand its incluence.
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WWII concluded with a _______ shift in the international system: Germany in ruins, France divided, Japan decimated, and Italy weakened, whereas the US had its capital intact, plentiful of resources, and the threat of atomic bombs.
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Strategic harbour. Its act was the 'casus belli', that is to say, the triggering event for the US to join the war.
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Minority group that got new job opportunities due to the war.
