How World War 2 started-
For the US:
- quit trading supplies (oil) with Japan
- Tough policies towards Japan
- Pearl Harbor Attack
In Asia:
- The great depression
- Japanese invasion of Manchuria
- Japanese invasion of China
Europe:
- Germany wanted their land back
- Treaty of Versailles
- the great depression
- Hitlers actions
- Mussolini's actions
- Failure of the league of nations
- Policy of Appeasement
- Came out of the Munich conference. Gave Hitler land to make him stop but Hitler Lied and told them what they wanted to hear but didn't follow through
- Hitlers invasion of Poland
- Rise of Nationalism
Effects on WWll on US
- Stimulated economy
- 17 million new jobs created
- average wages increased 30%
- middle class greatly expanded
- Federal power during the war increased
- shifted from state laws to federal laws- Important during the civil rights ear and Vietnam war
- Women involved in the workforce
- More rights for African Americans Integrated troops
- German Nazi party was completely destroyed and German was broken up into 4 zones
- Japanese cities were destroyed from bombing and Japan was placed under military rule
- most deaths ever in a war
- United Nations starts
- Major powers of the world were discovered
- Cold war- Us vs USSR
Battle of the Bulge:
- Largest and worst battle for the US
- Hitlers last effort to win the war
US war in Pacific against Japan
- Kristallnacht
- A night when Germans went and burned Jewish houses and stores
- No Jews were killed
- Reasons we won WW2
- Industry
- technology/atomic bombs
- spies
- Ultra-German code
- Magic-Japanese code
- Homefront
- women
- factories
- nurses
- joined military branches
- buying war bonds
- Propaganda
- leaders
- Hitlers mistakes
- Attacking soviet union/Great Britain
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