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| Who and what were the big three |
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| the big three was a nickname given to Franklin Roosevelt (USA), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) |
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| The Axis Powers included Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hideki Tojo (Japan) |
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| On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the next day the US declared war on Japan[image] |
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| In 1943, why and what material did the US use for pennies |
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| In 1943, the US used steel for pennies because there was a copper shortage after all the copper used for bullets |
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| What was an internment camp |
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| an internment camp was where the US took most of the Japanese people who lived in the US because people thought they were threats since Japan is who bombed Pearl Harbor |
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| June 6, 1944 is the date of D-Day. D-Day was when Americans and other allied troops invaded beaches in Normandy and they fought hard even when the odds were highly stacked against them |
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| On April 12, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt dies and Harry S. Truman becomes president |
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| On August 6-9 of 1945 the US dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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| What were the names of the atomic bombs |
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| The names of the atomic bombs were "Fat Man" (Nagasaki) and "Little Boy" (Hiroshima) |
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| On August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders and ends World War Two |
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