Friday March 30

Blog disscutions.

FDR dieing peralisis and exhertion. was a smoker, died april 2nd 1945. When he died trooman took over. Trooman from missouri swore a lot. Said the buck stops here wasnt going to blame someone.
Hitler died soon after roosevelt. Hitler hear of roosevelts death and thought they could win in reality they couldnt.
He got married on last day of his life. She commited suicide with hitler.

V - E Day means Victory in Europe day, the date the war ended was signed may 7th and ratified May 8th, it was the end of the Nazis. The events leading up to the end of Germany were getting through the Siegfried Line. The Allies came from the west into Germany. Hitler committed suicide along with other head leaders of Germany instead of being captured by the allies.

US policy of island hopping was a line overlapping island bases as well as air control over Japan. It was an offensive the US took against Japan. The goal of island hopping was to cut off key islands from Japan. They were bloody battles led by Nimitz. The attacks were marine landings with amphibious vehicles. The islands they took were stitregicaly took for there airfields or other major place of importance.

Japs had aircraft and attacked two carriers. Then we attacked back and sunk 2 ships. Japan didnt win if we lost we japan would have invaded austrailia. may of 1942 when it happend. Next month was battle of midway. Japan put powerful task force. knew japan was going to attack and attacked before they could and won.
Japan couldnt compeat with our factories. The amount we put out helped win the war.

Philippines. December 7th 1941 same day as pearl harbor. Gen douglas mccarther was general there. Was forced to leave and vowed to come back and retake it. Battan death march was terrible thing japan did to US.

Guadal canal code name operation watchtower. Tryed to get to hendersen airfeild
Ebogema goal was to take island and airbases on it. feb 19 1945

Oakinawa. japan started using comicauzies to try change tide of war. It didnt tho.

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