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World War II History
World War II History
1940 - Adolf Hitler sent German army and air force reinforcements to Romania to protect oil reserves and to prepare for an Eastern European base for attacks against the Soviet Union.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive waters. The U.S. had not officially entered World War II at this time.
1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh brought on charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King met in Cananda at the Quebec Conference.
1944 - The U.S. 1st Army crossed the border into German territory.
| "To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance, and we were now going to finish with it for good." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - June 1942 |
