Atlantic Charter
showed the US wasnt very neutral
the only thing we arent doing is fighting with troops
in spring of 1941
FDR and Churchill meet
set war goals for a war that we aren't in
no territoral gain
no territorial changes without the peoples support from those countries
self determination
free trade
destruction of the nazis and then setting up a peaceful government in germany
freedom of the seas
abandon the use of force, disarmament and a stronger league of nations
German Invasion of USSR
final plan for operation barbarossa
hitlers code name for the invasion of the soviet union
mein kampf- if people would have read this they would have known that if you control this area you are a major power house
lennongrad
mascow
stalingrad
if he captured these three cities he thought they would surrender
he never quite got to moscow
germany had 90 percent control of stalingrad
they surrounded the lennongrad city
one of the biggest operations in world history
summer of 1931
he used blitz grege attack again
the non agression pact- soviet union gave germany lots of resources and now they wouldnt be revieving those resources
did not look good for russia in the first few months
stalingrad- volgograd
winter of 1941 42 germans werent used to the bad winter conditions
getting supplies became very hard
he really needed to win this between 6 and 8 months
three years of fighting
Scorched Earth Policy
stalin demaned this of the soviet tropps as they retreated so then hitler couldnt have the resources
they also may have took the resources with them
Operation Typhoon: Battle of Moscow
September 30- December 5, 1941
blitz grege worked very well until the winter hit
the soviet winter- counteroffensive
Japan Invades French Indochina 1941
Pearl Harbor
Japanese controlled this
Japan invaded mankuri then they invaded french indochina
then US stopped trading oil with japan
they depended on getting the oil from us
they didn't know what they were going to do
they could abandon their goal and just go back to japan but that probably wasnt going to happen
make a compromise with US
hit the US
went for number 3
they said we will withdraw from french indochina if you start trading with us again
we said no we will trade again when you withdraw from frech indochina and china
we wanted to force them to the point where they had to attack us because FDR wanted to get into the war
its called a backdoor conspiricy theory
japan said we cant do that
they strike us
japanese leaders- hideki tojo and emperor hirohito
emperor supported war with the united states
Admiral Yamamoto
he was college educated in the US
he saw how powerful the US could be
he said it would be a hard to do but if we have a chance attacking pearl harbor that is the one way we could win the war
attacking pearl harbor to get us to make a deal with japan to trade oil again
they felt it was the only option they had
December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor attack
lucky thing- aircraft carriers were not at pearl harbor
they are huge ships that planes can take off from
destroy communication, transportation
they cancelled the third way and got out of there
this was lucky for us
we took an attitude that pearl harbor could never be attacked
we didnt think the japanese were able to do something like this
racist that japanese people were blind
they were afraid that japanese people that lived there would put a bomb on a boat
put all the boats really close together so less people could watch them
that actually hurt us with the pearl harbor attack
December 8, 1941
japan goes back to japan and they thought they did really well
the next day FDR signed
japan that day also attacked other places all over asia
test on monday
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