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World War Two
World War Two before the US involvement
• US Involvement in the first years
• Lend-Lease Act
• Japan before 1940
• Invasion of Manchuria 1931
• Invasion of China 1937
• Invasion of French Indochine 1940
Pearl Harbor
• Reasons for the bombing (1940, 1941 deliveries)
• US-Japan negotiations
• Incomplete intelligence
• December 7, 1941
US at war
• Effects on Japanese within the US
• Normandy – 1944
• Surrender of Germany – May 7, 1945
• Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
• Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
• Surrender of Japan – August 15, 1945
Geopolitical implications
• Atlantic Charter – 1941
• No territorial gains by the US or the UK
• Right to self-determination
• Lowering trade barriers
• Global economic cooperation
• Disarmament of the aggressors
Geopolitical implications
• Teheran Conference – 1943
• preliminary agreement to the UN
• Yalta Conference – February 1945
• dealing with Germany
• Potsdam Conference – July-August 1945
• war reparations
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