... Britain -German bombers bomb RAF bases, then bombed London by mistake, then intentionally more; aerial battle Pearl Harbor - Cause: When Japan took French Indochina, US put trade embargo on Japan. Japanese wanted to destroy the US' Pacific Fleet in order to clear the way to conquer Southeast Asia - US reacts by declaring war on Japan and inspiring men to enlist in ... , fuel, shoes, coffee, sugar, fats, oils, nuts, butter, and canned goods were rationed - 12 million African Americans, 50,000 Native Americans, and 2 million women worked on army supplies - to control prices, the government...

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... this policy is one of the reasons Adolf Hitler and his fascist dictatorship was able to gain so much power. Still, Americans remained aloof, and as in the WWI, contributed mostly with supplies for the Allied troops. Once again, history had begun to repeat itself. Meanwhile ... , Americans lived under the guise of safety and in relative prosperity. One characteristic that marked the 1940s was the overwhelming rise in entertainment and ... 7, 1941: A day that will live in infamy,"" went President Roosevelt's address to the nation following the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor. The surprise...

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... . This does not of course mean that there have been no major rights abuses. Such a flagrant example of the derogation of rights occurred during World War 2 with the internment of Japanese-American civilians. This was a clear breach of amendments a number of provisions in the Bill of Rights, yet the exceptional circumstances of the time were unsuited to any judicial action to ... sixteenth amendment. Another example of the constitution limiting progress in a crucial area is equal rights for ethnic minorities. During the 1950s and 1960s momentum grew for equal rights for African-Americans,...

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... months after the end of hostilities in Europe. Critics of the agreements that each nation's leaders negotiated hold that it partitioned the world into both communist and non-communist spheres. Americans viewed the Soviet denial of the Yalta agreements as enmity between the two nations, which could in effect develop into a war, with the power to destroy humanity, hence both the ... . Roosevelt and Churchill were further inclined to assent to the Yalta agreements because they assumed, mistakenly as it turned out, that Soviet assistance would be sorely needed to defeat the Japanese in the P...

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