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I<br />

Pearl Harbor in 1941 ended<br />

American hesitation. Above<br />

President Franklin D. Roosevelt<br />

signs the declaration<br />

of war.<br />

"Rosie the Riveter” at work on<br />

a B-17<br />

The Bomb at Nagasaki. U.S. Air<br />

Force photo<br />

Wardlaw students lost at war.<br />

Victory o \er Germany came after nearly a year s hard fighting. Below: American<br />

troops driving inland off the Normandy beaches, June 1944. The defeat of<br />

Japan, on the other hand, was dramatically sudden. Atomic bombs were<br />

dropped on 6 and 9 August 1945. Japan surrendered on 14 August, and an<br />

armistice was signed on 2 September.<br />

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