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| segregation in the military |
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| blood plasma separated blacks from whites; blacks segregated and homosexuals banned from service |
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| Lack of awareness about Holocaust |
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| only 43% of Americans believed Hitler was systematically murdering Jews; the government refused to bomb rail lines leading to Auschwitz and other concentraion camps |
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| February 1945; Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin met to discuss prospects for postwar peace; US monitored Pacific islands, Britain- reclaim Asian empire, Russia-enter war with Japan and claim Baltic states |
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| Allied leaders met to plan post-war world-little cooperation between allies -conference where Truman first learns of the atomic bomb-kept secret by Roosevelt |
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| site of Allied D-Day invasion June 6, 1944 |
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| Stalin, FDR, and Churchill met; Stalin demanded FDR and Churchill open up second front in Europe |
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| fierce racial fighting between Japanese and Americans-island hopping, the last island before Japan |
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| top-secret development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico |
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| Truman decided to drop bomb to save American lives in a ground battle |
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| punished Nazi leaders for war crimes |
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