USA
Navajo code talkers
Code words were common to military terms , used through radio and telephone, used by the marine corps, 50,000 tribe members
impact wwii had on us
17 million new jobs, federl powers increased, womne worked, blacks were treated as second class citizens, blacks were also given some jobs
USSSR
basic facts
causealties- over 60 million dead, 19-25 due to illness, cost 1 trillion, alliance W/ germany uS and Great Britiain
Homefront
everyone was involved, war was on their terriotory, women worked while the men fought
joseph stalin
general secretary of the central commitee, became leader after Lenin died in 24, organized the great purge, signed the pact W/ germany
Ivan Bagramyan
marshal fo the army, later on became soviet army commander, fought eastern front, operation barbarossa
georgy Zhukov
Marshal of the army, member of the allied control council for Germany, minister of defense of the soviet 55-57
why they won
germany was not ready for the winter, allies(US DUH), they had a lot of men
impact after the war
most casualties of the war, production went up, rebuilt cities
US
allied powers- great britain, societ union, united states, china and france
lesser allied- belgium, czechoslavakia, denmark, greece, norway, netherlands, turkey, luxemborg, poland, san marino, egypt, ethiopia, liberia, india, iran, iraq
US after WWI
US never signed the treaty of versailles, wilson vs congress, join the league of nations or go back in isolation
republican warren harding won the 1920 presidential election with a promise to "return to normality"
The US went back to focusing on America in the 1920's and 1930's
neutrality in general- in the 1930s we passed 4 neutrality acts, 35,36,37,39- (not picking sides) wanted to make sure we stayed out of war, we felt we were brought into WWI by europe, wanted to avoid that.
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