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Roosevelt tried to stop the Japanese empire from growing into china
By placing a embargo on important naval and aviation supplies to Japan, such as oil, iron ore, fuel, steel, and rubber. -
Japan signs the Tripartite Pact
They signed it to join Germany and Italy. Which were a part of the Axis Powers at the time -
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Soviet Union joins the Allies
After Germany's invasion on the Soviets, They joined the allied side. -
The Philippines fall to the Japanese
General Douglas MacArthur, commander of United States Army forces in Asia, struggled to hold the U.S. positions of the Philippines with little support. This task grew even more daunting when the Japanese destroyed half of the army's fighter planes in the region and rapidly took Guam, Wake Island, and Hong Kong. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The forces that Tojo sent from Japan under the command of vice admiral Chuichi Nagumo included 6 aircraft carriers, 360 airplanes, an assortment of battleships and cruisers, and a number of submarines. Their mission was to eradicate the American naval and air presence in the pacific with a surprise attack. Such a blow would prevent Americans from mounting a strong resistance to Japanese expansion. The attackers struck with devastating power, taking the American forces completely by surprise. -
The Battle of Coral Sea
A major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of WWII -
War Production Board (WPB)
From the start, Roosevelt and the other Allied leaders knew that American production would play a key role in helping the Allies win the war. Although America's industry had started to mobilize in response to the Lend-Lease Act, American production still needed to increase the rate at which it churned out war materials. So the government set up the War Production Board to oversee the conversion of peacetime industry to war industry -
Bataan Death March
When 75,000 Allied soldiers surrendered. Japanese troops forced the sick and malnourished prisoners of war, or POWs, to march 55 miles up the Bataan Peninsula to reach a railway that took them inland where they were forced to march 8 more miles. More than 7,000 American and Filipino troops died during the grueling journey -
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
Over 350,000 women responded to the call to help. Later Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers introduced a bill to establish a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Which became the Women's Army Corps to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for for United States Army. More than 150,000 women volunteered for the service;15,000 served aboard over the course of the war and over 600 received medals for their services. More than 57,000 nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps. -
American production of war materials is increased
American production levels were double those of all the axis nations put together, giving the Allies a crucial advantage