Mar. 14-18

Monday- Finished Soviet Union, and The US

Tuesday- Learned about the US

Wednesday- Continued the US

Thursday-Continued in the US

Friday-Continues in the US

Between WWI-WWII

Russia drops out of WWI to fight the Bolshevik Revolution
Nationalization and Collectivization of the Soviet Economy
- Government takes over businesses
- Farms become collective
  - People get paid a wage and not for selling their crops

During WWII

Signed German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
- in 1939
  - Germany invades
    - Soviet Union
    - Estonia
    - Latvia
    - Lithuania

Operation Barbarossa

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Battle of Berlin

Hitler Kills himself
Germany Surrenders

Post WWII

Cold War
- Soviet Union forced countries to become communist

The US Continued

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Island Hopping
- Skip over Islands
- Only hit the important ones
Battle of Guadalcanal
- First Offensive for US
Kamikazes
- Suicide Bombers
Iwo Jima
- US got really close to Japan in order to drop atomic bombs
- Japan tricked US into thinking they weren't there
- Bloodiest attack in WWII for US
  - about 7,000 deaths
- Famous picture of the flag raise
Operation Downfall
- Planned for October, 1945
- Estimated 1 million US causalities
- Never took place due to Atomic Bomb

The Atomic Bomb

The Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- Code name for the atomic bomb development
Trinity Test
- New Mexico, July 16, 1945
Enola Gay
- Airplane that would be strong enough to carry and drop the atomic bomb
Hiroshima Bombing
- Uranium 235 bomb
- Bomb exploded exteriorly
- Flattened building and killed everyone near from
  - Radiation Poisoning
  - Blast
  - Burned to Death
Nagasaki Bombing
- Bockscar
  - Name of airplane strong enough to carry bomb
  - Bomb imploded
Japan Surrendered
- After the two bombings
VJ Day
- Victory over Japan
- August 14/15, 1945
- September 2nd
  - Official for the US
  - Japan officially signed on the USS Missouri
Potsdam Conference
- July 1945
- Meeting to tell Japan to surrender
  - Gave terms of their surrender
- Dismantled Japans Current Government
  - except for emperor Hirohito
- The allies will occupy Japan
- Japan will lose all territory gains in WWII
- Japanese military forces will be disarmed and sent home
- War Crime trials
- Japan will become a democracy
  - each person gets human rights
- Japan were allowed to continue industries
  - over time trade with the world
- Military Occupied Japan for 7 years
  - left after they meant all requirements
- Japan must accept unconditional surrender
  - Had to listen to what the US told him to do or face utter destruction
US WWII vs. Germany
- German U-boats(submarine)
  - FDR told military to shoot at German U-boats before war started
- Convoy system
  - Many ships would move together in order to destroy U-boats and enhance trade
- Allied Intelligence
  - Radar
    - detects enemy ships and planes
  - Huff Duff
    - located submarines
  - ULTRA
    - Code name for the intercepting and breaking of German messages
  - MAGIC
    - Code name for the intercepting and breaking of Japanese code
- Enigma machine
  - system used to code German messages
  - Solving enigmas where a great triumph of WWII
- Bombe
  - Supercomputer used for deciphering codes
- D-Day
  - Operation overload
  - invade in France to push Germans back
  - Generals
    - Ike-Eisenhower
    - Patton
    - Bradley
  - Beaches
    - Omaha
    - Gold
    - Utah
    - Juno
    - Sword
    - Took five days to secure the beaches
- Battle of the Bulge
  - Worst battle for causalities in the US
  - Hitlers last major offensive
  - Tried to arrange his army into a bulge to get to the sea and trap enemy troops
- Melamany Massacre
  - 86 Americans were shot after their surrender
- Yalta Conference 1945
  - Established the United Nations after the war
  - Germany to be divided into four zones
  - Free elections allowed in the states of Eastern Europe
    - Stalin lied and made them communist
  - USSR promised to join the war against Japan
- V-E Day
  - Victory over Europe
  - Germany's surrender
- Harry Truman
  - Lowest approval rating in presidential history
  - Followed FDR
- Navajo Code talkers
Home front
- Women in WWII
  - Rosie the Riveter
    - Represented women in the work force
  - Secretaries
  - Nurses
  - Housewives
  - Farmers
  - Waitresses
  - Women could join the war to
    - make maps
    - take pictures
- Tokyo Rose
  - played sad songs on the radio to make US soldiers homesick
- Navajo Code talkers
  - Used to put English into code
- Blacks in war
  - Were given low rank jobs
  - built up ranks
- Asian Americans
  - Did average things around the US
Hollywood
- Used for propaganda
- Used to keep people entertained at home
Rationing(Office and Price Administration)
- Had to Ration
  - Food
  - Clothes
  - Gas
- Only had so much
- Led to the set up of the Black Market
- War ration books
- Everyone gets a different sticker
War production Board
- Encourages people to work hard for war
War Bonds
- Payed for wars

Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese people
- forced to move with the exception of one suit case
- Men worked in the field and were payed
- Women worked in the house
- Children went to school
- Did have sports for highschools

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