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The 1941 Lend-Lease Act let the country lend arms or other
supplies to any country vital to the Unites States
US military leaders decoded a Japanese message and knew that they
were planning an attack on the US, but they didnt know when or
where
To keep their real plans secret, the allies set up fake headquarters
and sent messages in codes they new Germany could read
Hitler had a large army at the port of Calais, where he thought the
Allies would attack
150 miles away from Calais, shortly after midnight on June
6, 1944, the allies began bombing German forces
The risky attack cost them 120,000 men, 600 tanks, and
1,600 planes, which they didnt have money or men to
replace
The Soviet army was the first to find one of the Nazi death
camps in July 1944
The main Allied powers in the Pacific war were the United States and
Australia
The Allies began to turn the tide with a Pearl Harbor-like surprise
attack on Tokyo in April 1942
In the Battle of Midway, the U.S. broke the Japanese code and
surprised them before they could attack Midway island, sinking 5 ships
and 250 planes
The Allies island hopped their way back across the Pacific until they
reached the Japanese island of Okinawa
The Japanese put up a fierce defense and took 7,600 American lives
in two months of fighting, but the lost 110,000 soldiers in defense of
the island
The bomb destroyed 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people instantly; tens
of thousands more died over the next year because the effects of the
radiation
When Japan did not immediately surrender, the US dropped a second bomb
on Nagasaki, killing 40,000