Atlantic Charter: Churchill and FDR meet to draft war goals of the US and GB. No territorial gain/changes w/o peoples support from those countries, self-determination, free trade, destruction of Nazis and then setting up a peaceful gov't in Germany, freedom of the seas, abandon the use of force, disarmament and a stronger LofN.
Operation Barbarossa: German invasion of USSR.
Scorched Earth Policy
Winter 1941/1942: Germans weren't prepared for cold/snowy Russian conditions.
Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941. First invaded French Indochina. US stopped trading oil. Tojo, Hirohito. Admiral Yamamoto (educated in US). Cancelled 3rd wave of planes. December 8, 1941. Congress declares war.
Backdoor to War Conspiracy: enter through Japan, not Germany. Force Japan to attack us so we can go to war.
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