April 11 - 15 - Blogs

Monday - I continued taking notes on Mr. Bruns' US powerpoint.

Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- Propaganda
  - encouraged people to get behind the war
  - join military
  - buy war bonds
- Declared war on japan
  - December 8, 1941
  - Day after Pearl Harbor
- Why Japan attacked us?
  - Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940
    - US stopped trading with Japan
  - Japan signed Soviet Japanese Neutrality Pact
  - Japan realized they needed US trade to be successful in war
  - Forced US; hand to hit them hard in a surprise attack
  - Instead woke a sleeping giant
    - we went to war with them
Invasion of Japan
- Operation Downfall
- Planned for October, 1945
- Estimated over 1 million casualties
- Estimated 267,000 deaths (US Soldiers)
Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- Trinity Test - July 16, 1945
- Neola Gay dropped bomb
- Little Boy - Hiroshima Bomb - Uranium Bomb
  - Radiation Sickness
  - Burned Skin
- Bockscar dropped bomb
- Fat Man-Nagasaki-Plutonium Bomb
Victory Over Japan Day
- August 14/15, 1945 (Official UK)
- September 2, 1945 (Official fr US)
  - When Japan officially signed on USS Missouri
  - Docked in Tokyo Harbor
Postdam Conference - July, 1945
- Dismantle the current government of Japan (excluding Emperor Hirohito)
- The Allies (US) will occupy
  - 7 years
- Japan consist only of major islands
- Lost all territory gained
- Democratic government
- Japan will be allowed to have industry, make money to pay for reparations
  - world trade enabled at some point
WW2 Major Battles
- Battle of the Atlantic - 1941-45
  - Ship Battles
  - Intercepting code
  - Radar
    - detecting vessels and aircraft above the surface
  - HF/DF
    - used to locate the sources of enemy radio transmissions (underwater) such as submarines
  - Ships/Airplanes fighting U-boats
    - Depth Charges
      - Bomb
      - chosen depth to detonate
- Operation Torch (Invasion of Morocco) - 1942
  - North Africa
  - Italy/Germany surrender in Africa
- Operation Avalanche (Invasion of Italy)
  - Invade through Sicily
- Operation Overlord (Invasion of France)
  - D-Day
  - June 11 the beachheads secured
  - Paris liberated August 25
  - Germany surrendered May 8, 1945
  - Battle of the Bulge
    - coldest, snowiest weather
    - 100,000 German casualties
    - 81,000 American casualties
US Homefront
- Women
  - Rosie the Riveter
  - Factory workers
  - Nursing
  - Taxi Driver
  - Messengers
  - Teachers
  - Conductors
  - Machinist
  - Military Branches
    - Women's Army Core
      - Make maps
      - Secretary Works
    - WAVES - Women's Navy
    - WASP - Women's Army Service Pilots
      - Transport planes
      - Test planes
  - "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri
    - Forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan
    - In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home
    - She was a US citizen in Japan
    - Convicted of treason
- Navajo Code Talkers
  - Magic - breaking Japanese Code
  - Never able to break our code
  - Navajo radio talkers
  - Navajo language was never written down
  - If Navajo captured by enemy
    - US soldier would shoot Navajo
    - keep them from telling code
- African Americans
  - didn't fight much
  - were mostly cooks
  - Tuskegee Airmen
    - most recognized
    - were given leave to bomb
    - best record
- Asian Americans
  - concern for them fighting
    - might join Japanese ranks
- Hollywood
  - entertain people
    - keep peoples mind of the war
  - educated people on what happened in the war
  - entertained the troops
    - kept their hopes up
  - propaganda films
- Rationing
  - OPA (Office of Price Administration)
    - price controls
  - Food
    - sugar
    - meat
  - Clothing
    - silk
    - nylon
  - Gasoline
    - 5 gallons per week
  - Black market developed
    - counterfeit stickers
    - stolen stickers
    - 5-30% of gasoline sales
- War Bonds
  - helped pay for the war
  - investment of US citizens
  - 85 million Americans purchased bonds
    - about $185 billion
- Japanese Internment Camps
  - America worried they were spies
  - kids went to school
  - men worked in the fields

Tuesday - We continued taking notes on Mr. Bruns' powerpoint. I continued notes above.

Wednesday - We talked about the test and it will be on Friday. I continue notes above on Mr. Bruns' powerpoint.

Thursday - I continued notes above. We talked about the test tomorrow.

Questions:

Describe United States role in WW2

Return to Normalcy & Neutrality
- Neutrality Acts
- Lend-Lease Act
War with Japan
- Pearl Harbor
- Island Hopping
  - Coral sea
  - Midway
  - Iwo Jima
- Atomic Bomb dropping
- Postdam Confrence
- VJDay
War with Germany
- North AFrica
- Italy
- D-Day
- Yalta Conference
- VE Day
Homefront
- Women
- Hollywood
Why we won?
- Production
- Technology
- Code breaking
- Allies
- Homefront

Describe Great Britain's role in the WW2

Return to Peace
- Kellog-Brand Pact
- Make sure Germany can't be powerful again
- World Peace
Appeasement
- Give Austria/Sudetenland area
- Munich Conference
Germany Invasions
- Poland
- Blitzkreig Attacks
Battle of Britain
- "We shall never surrender" speech - Churchill
- Royal Air force
- never surrender
- last Allie standing
Fighting
- North Africa
- D-Day

Describe the Soviet Union's role in the WW2

Communism
Joseph Stalin
- control
- killing
- 5 yr plans
War
- Non-aggression
- Invasion of Poland
- Declare war with Germany
- Moscow
- Stalingrad
- Leningrad
- Russian Winter
- Scorch Earth Policy
- Defeat Germany

Describe France's role in the WW2

After WW1
- Punished Germany
  - Germany could never terrorize them again
- Mationale Line
- Appeasement Act
Declare War
- Invasion
- Surrender
Vichy Government
- In charge of southern France
- Round up Jews
- Marshal Pitain
Free French
- fled to Britain
- Charles LeGawl
- D-day invasion
- help defeat Germany

Friday - We took the test today.

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