Bookmarks by Stanley Hu https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks Made with a wish on a star en-us 2022-04-06 22:00:30 UTC 2022-04-19 16:12:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Cash and Carry Policy 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902089 This policy allowed belligerent nations to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships. 
Sig: The cash and carry program stimulated U.S. manufacturing while allowing the Allied nations, particularly the United Kingdom, to purchase needed military equipment.
]]> 2022-04-08 20:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902089 Lend-lease Act 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902252 This act allowed Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to exchange, lease, land, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article" whenever he thought it was "necessary in the interests of the defense of the United States".
Sig: Under this policy, the United States was able to supply military aid to its foreign allies during World War II while still remaining officially neutral. 

]]> 2022-04-08 20:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902252 Atlantic Charter 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902408 A document that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of "general security".
Sig: signaled the deepening alliance between the two nations and the full moral support of the United States to Britain
]]> 2022-04-08 20:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136902408 Battle of the Bulge 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136920287 The Germans take multiple towns in the American lines which the Americans were unable to use air forces when the sky was snowy and cloudy.
sig: The battle was an attempt to wedge between American and British troops, but crippled Germany back to its limited resources.]]> 2022-04-08 21:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136920287 The Yalta Conference 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136922691 The Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Roania would hold free elections.
sig: Stalin was unclear on his promises]]> 2022-04-08 21:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136922691 Iwo Jima 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136923817 Iwo Jima was a 5-mil long island which Us marines captured in 36 days.
sig: 23,000 marines faced casualties]]> 2022-04-08 21:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136923817 The Battle for Okinawa 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136925386 US takes Okinawa with 50,000 casualties.
sig: Okinawa was necessary for the invasion of Japan]]> 2022-04-08 21:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136925386 V-E Day 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136926836 Americans celebrate the victory in Europe after Germany surrendered.
sig: President Roosevelt died a few weeks prior to V-E Day.]]> 2022-04-08 21:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136926836 Hiroshima and Nagasaki and V-J Day 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136929589 Truman thought that by using the atomic bomb, the end of the war would be nearer. Us pilots dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
sig: Japan surrenders after the US killed more than 95,000 Japanese residents.]]> 2022-04-08 21:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136929589 Nuremberg Trials 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136931434 Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes by describing details of the Halocaust. 
sig: The periodic trials kept alie the memory of the Nazi crimes against humnity]]> 2022-04-08 21:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136931434 Attack on Pearl Harbor 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934526 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base was attacked by Japan's navy which included 6 aircraft carriers, 360 airplanes, an assortment of battleships and cruisers, and submarines.
Sig: This unprovoked attack brought the United States into World War II, as it immediately declared war on Japan.
]]> 2022-04-08 21:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934526 Battle of Midway 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934604 The most important naval battle of World War II, the United States dealt Japan a decisive defeat. American torpedo planes and dive bombers sank four Japanese aircraft carriers, along with all 250 aircrafts on board and many of Japan's experienced pilots. America lost only one aircraft carrier. 
Sig: removed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific

]]> 2022-04-08 21:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934604 Battle of Stalingrad 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934851 The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. This battle is known as the bloodiest battle.
Sig:  It was the first time that the Hitler admitted a military defeat, which also made it the psychological turning point of the war for both Germany and the Soviet Union. 

]]> 2022-04-08 21:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136934851 D-Day 10016125 https://padlet.com/10016125/Bookmarks/wish/2136935240 British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
Sig: This day marked the turn of events for the control maintained by Nazi Germany. In less than a year after the invasion, the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany's surrender.

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