causes of war in Asia and Europe
- Asia
- lots of the reason it started was from the great depression
- Japanese expansion
- Japanese invaded Mancheria
- Quit trading supplies with Japan in the summer of 1941
- Tough policies towards Japan in Fall of 1941
- Pearl Harbor attack
- Europe was the invasion of Poland
- Treaty of Versailles
- the great depression
- Hitlers actions in the 30's
- Mussolinis actions in the 30's
- failure of the league of nations
- policy of appeasement
- rise of nationalism in Europe
Short term effects that WW2 had on the USA
- it took us out of the Depression
- the middle class greatly expanded in the 50's and 60's getting paid better
- Federal power expanded after WW2
- Women became more involved in the work force
- more rights for African Americans
- We lost around 280 billion dollars after the war
- Germany was dismantled into 4 zones
- Japan was put under military rules
- The major Power houses were discovered was Soviets and USA
- the united nations was formed
- the cold war started in 45 tell 91 proxy wars fought communism
North African Campaign
- took place in north Africa from June, 1940 to may, 1943
- took place in Libyan and Egyptian deserts also in Morocco, Algeria and ended in Tunisia
- the campaign was fought between the allies(GB, France, USA) and Axis powers (Germany(Afrika corps)Italy, Vichy French)
- The area was in conflict due to colonial interests
- the US started direct military action
- Operation Torch-November 1942
- US British and French invasion of North Africa
- Bernard Montgomery - Monty British General
- George Patton - US General
- Dwight Eisenhower - US General (he was basically the third person to make decisions after the president)
- Erwin Rommel - Germany General known as "The Fox"
- In 1942 Casablanca Conference "Unconditional Surrender" which meant there would be no deal making
- we won in Africa in 1943 and now we turned towards Italy
- Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily, Italy 1943)
- Operation Avalanche (invasion of Italy)
- After Africa we moved into Sicili
- Invasion of Italy on September 1943
- Most Italians Surrendered very quickly and actually fought for us as allied powers but some stayed loyal to Germany
- Italy Apennines Mountains made it hard to fight
- Tuskegee institute/airmen which were very good African american fighter pilots
D - Day
- June 6 1944
- very heavily fortified armed cost line
- Hitler built all these concrete pill boxes and had spiked steal things to make it harder for boats to get there
- we came from the water and attacked them on land
- the battle took one day
- it was delayed many times because of bad weather
- We were invading France because Germany had taken it over
- This ultimately ended the war in Europe
- it was successful but we had 9000 injured, killed, or lost in the battle
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