The United States Presidential election of the 1940 was the 39th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. the election was fought in the shadow of world war II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the great depression.
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World War II (1939-1945)- the second world war was a global total war waged by most nations on the earth. The war began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ended on September 2, 1945 when japan surrendered following the atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Holocaust (1942-1945)- the Germans originally wished to deport Jews and others, but the war changed things. They closed their borders and turned concentration camps into death camps. The Holocaust involved the systematic killing of Jews, Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, the mentally and physically disabled, and others the Nazis considered impure.
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