April 11th- 15th (US Notes)

[3Jenny]

Monday- US Notes 

• Pearl Harbor
  • Very shallow area (surprising because torpedoes would hit the bottom before they would explode) 
  • Far away 
  • Japanese put wooden fins on so that they would float and explode
    • USS Arizona Memorial 
    • boat is still there
  • Got people to buy war bonds and join the military 
  • Next day, December 8, 1941, Germany Italy declares war on the US (FDR's Speech) 
• FDR's War Message
  • Peal Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked on December 7th
  • Also attacked: Hong Kong, Guam, Philippine Island, Walk Island, Midway Island
• Why Japan Attacked
  • Wanted to force oil trading again with the US
  • Signed a Japanese- Soviet Union pact (didn't have to worry about the Soviet so they focused on the US)
  • Japanese leader looked against Pearl Harbor because he thought it was a mistake 
• Backdoor to War Conspiracy
  • The US wanted the Japanese to attack us
  • US could've done something to prevent the attack by not giving them any alternative but to attack 
• Douglas MacArthur
  •  Didn't want to leave the war 
  • Famous General 
  • Forced to leave the Philippians in 1942 
  • Really full of himself and harmful 
  • Came back in 1944 
• Baton Death March
  • US was forced to travel from one camp to another 
  • Philippine POW camps (Japanese did this to the US)
  • 650 soldiers lost 
• Doolittle's Raid
  • April, 1942 
  • First best thing that happened for the US 
  • Dropped a few bombs in Tokyo, Japan 
  • Done to make people feel like there was still hope for the US in the war 
  • Didn't really have that much of an impact (militarily) 
• Battle of the Coral Sea 
  • First Turning point for US in the War
  • US held the Japanese from taking over Coral Sea and later trying to take Australia 
  • Actually tied but Japanese didn't win so we thought it was successful 
• Battle of Midway
  • June 1942
  • Islands were important to stop and refuel 
  • US had broken Japanese code 
• US Strategy of Island Hopping
  • Instead of hitting every island, we skipped a few islands and bomb others
  • Save bombs for certain islands
  • Caused Japanese to protect certain islands that were never going to be attacked 
• Kamikazes
  • Pact airplanes for of things and crash into ships
  • Japanese destroyed many planes father then they could replace 
  • Had to shoot the plane down before it attacked the ship 
• Summer of 1945- Invasion
  • Operation Downfall 
  • Planned for October, 1945 
  • Estimated 1 million casualties 
  • about 267,000 deaths (Just US deaths) 

Tuesday- US Notes

• Manhattan Project 
  • Enola Gay- Maiden name of the pilots mother
    • Paul Tibbit 
  • Didn't destroy the whole city (Like wouldn't destroy all of Omaha 
  • Japan still didn't surrender after Hiroshima bomb 
    • Everything went right except for the picture plane getting lost 
• Nagasaki Bomb
  • "Fat Man"- went into a bomb and then exploded 
  • Bockscar- plane that dropped it 
    • Everything went wrong because of cloud cover 
  • Had to drop Nagasaki because the bomb was heavy and were going to run out of fuel so they just dropped it where they could 
  • Japan later surrendered 
• VJ Day
  • August 14/15,(Official UK)
  • September 2, 1945 (Official US)
    • When Japan officially signed on USS Missouri 
• Postdam Conference- July,1945
  • Dismantle the current government of Japan 
  • The Allies will occupy Japan 
  • Japan will consist only of the major islands
  • Dismantle their military 
• WWII Major Battle/Operations Timeline VS. Germany 
  • Germany was more dangerous than Japan even though they didn't attack the US
  • First fought Germany and Italy in Operation Torch (North Africa) 
  • Operation Avalanche Italy 
  • Operation Overloud France 
• Convoy System
  • Instead of going by ship by yourself, merchant ships surrounded them 
  • Traveled in packs
  • Fighting against Germany 
• Allied Intelligence 
  • The Allies shared into form RADAR and High Frequency Radio Direction Finding (Huff Duff) 
  • RADAR provided a means of detecting vessels and aircraft above the surface 
• Hunter - Killer 
  • Finding submarines by using depth finders 
• Dwight Eisenhower 
  • Commander of All Allied Powers 
  • Future President 
    • Nickname is Ike, Patton, Bradley 
• D-Day
  • June 6, 1944 
  • Day of all Days 
  • Retake France from Germany (taken over for four years) 
  • 156,00 Allied Troops carried it out
  • Omaha beach was the costliest beach in terms of Allied casualties (Coded Beach names)
  • week later the beach was controlled 
  • Happened before Battle of the Bulge 

Wednesday-

• Yalta Conference- 1945
  • Establishment of the United Nations
  • Germany to be divided into four zones
  • Free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
  • USSR promised to join the war against Japan 
    • Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt to plan what would happen when the war ended
• FDR Dies
  • Truman swan in April 12, 1945 
• V-E Day
  • Victory in Europe Day 
  • May 8, 1945 

US Homefront 

• Women in WWII
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • Encourage people to grow food from their victory garden 
  • Don't buy things off the black market 
  • Nursing 
  • Get out and get a war job and get involved 
  • women needed to get jobs outside of the home in factories (step up to the plate) 
    • Had their own military branch 
• "Tokyo Rose"
  • Iva Toguri 
    • Forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan 
    • Taunted the troops and played music from home 
    • US citizen in Japan 
    • Convicted of treason 
• Native Americans
  • Navajo Code Talkers 
• African Americans 
  • Lived in segregation 
  • Tuskegee Institute/Airmen 
    • Bombed placed in Italy 
    • African Americans could be good fighters 
• Asian Americans in WWII
• Hollywood in WWII
  • Keeping people's mind off the war and depression 
  • Educated people about what was going on in the war 
  • entertained the troops 

Thursday- 

• Kilroy Engraving on the WWII Memorial in DC 
  • James Kilroy worked on the shipyard 
  • Lend Lease Act
• OPA Rationing 
  • Office of Price Administration 
  • Set prices on things
    • Stickers allowing certain amounts of gas per year 
    • Food, meat Clothing, home necessities 
    • Horse meet was not rationed 
  • Caused the rise of Black Market (fake stickers) 
• War Finance Committee and War Bonds
  • 85 million Americans purchased $185 billion in war bonds
  • Helped pay for the war
  • As low as $18.75
  • Ten years later, paid out $25 

TEST OUTLINE

• 3rd Hour: 1. Describe the Unites State's role in the WWII story-1919-1945(40).
• 2. Describe Great Britain's role in the WWII story-1919-1945(10).
• 3. Describe the Soviet Union's role in the WWII story-1919-1945(20). 
• 4. Describe France's role in the WWII story-1919-1945(10).

Friday- 

• United States
  • Return to Normalcy and Neutrality 
    • Isolation 
    • (like not trading, cash and curry system, acts designed to keep us out of war)
    • Neutrality Act 
    • Lend-Lease Act 
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Island Hopping 
    • Coral Sea
    • Midway
    • Iwa Jima
    • Bomb dropping 
    • VJ Day
  • War with Germany 
    • Africa 
    • Italy
    • D-Day
    • Yalta Conference 
    • VE Day 
  • Homefront 
    • Importance of women
    • War bonds
    • PRODUCTION 
    • TECHNOLOGY 
    • BROKE THEIR CODE
    • BETTER ALLIES 
• Great Britain
  • Germany was never strong again
  • Throughout the 30's 
    • Appeasement 
      • Give Hitler what he wants (all that Land-Ammuna Conference) 
  • 40's Last Allied Power left standing 
    • Battle of Britain 
    • We shall Never Surrender Speech
    • Base of Operations 
  • Helped fight in Africa and D-Day
  • Helped Free French take down Germany 
• France
  • Viche Government 
  • Free French
  • After WWI- never to worry about Germany 
    • Punish Germany
    • Maginal Line 
    • Appeasement policy for Germany 
  • Germany in control of French from Germany 
  • Southern parts of French were Viche 
  • D-Day invasion