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Victory Program
The Victory Program (officially, Rainbow Five) was a military plan for the United States' involvement in World War II, drawn up in the second half of 1941, before the country formally entered the war. Part of a series of secret color-coded war plans developed by the Joint Planning Committee, it was exposed by the Chicago Tribune on December 4, 1941, causing a political furor that lasted until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor three days later.
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The Victory Program (officially, Rainbow Five) was a military plan for the United States' involvement in World War II, drawn up in the second half of 1941, before the country formally entered the war. Part of a series of secret color-coded war plans developed by the Joint Planning Committee, it was exposed by the Chicago Tribune on December 4, 1941, causing a political furor that lasted until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor three days later.
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