Mr. Bruns started by playing Friday by Rebecca Black. Not cool. Worst song ever. not even kidding. It's bad. Really, really, really, really, really, really bad.
Atlantic Charter-Spring of 1941. The US was moving closer to Great Britain, Lend-Lease Act, Cash&Carry System. Summary: No territorial gain, no territorial jchanges 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 forse disarmament, and stronger League of Nations.
Operation Barbarossa- German invasion of USSR. The Germans were basically allowed to swoop in because the USSR didn't have a very good army. Finally, they were able to defent themselves. It's the winter that set in and allowed the Soviets to push Germany away, and back towards Germany.
Scortched Earth Policy-Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated. As they retreated they decided to burn crops, and everything that Hitler could have used.
Pearl Harbor=a naval base in Hawaii. In 1941 Japan had a good naval base going. The Pearl Harbor bombing starts because Japan invaded French Indo-China. We quit trading oil with Japan after that. This is what really led up to Pearl Harbor. Japan had 3 things they could do. Abandon their goals of invading Southeast Asia. Make a compromise with the US to withdraw from French Indo-China. The US decided that they needed to withdraw from China too. Their 3rd option was to attack us. They went with that one. Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohoti agreed that they needed to attack Pearl Harbor. Admiral Yamamoto was the one that really put the idea up. Pearl Harbor happned on December 7, 1941. Everyone believed that Japanese couldn't see because they always had thick glasses. These people were dead wrong. :p It was ordered that we (US) put all the ships close together.
A lot of people considered the war a conspiracy theory. Roosevelt said to force their hand, and to make Japan attack us. And with that Germany would declare war with us, and we'd be able to fight them.
Originally Japan was going to bomb Pearl Harbor 3 times, but they only did twice. They destroyed a lot of ships, but lots of them weren't completely destroyed. They really wanted to hit our aircraft carriers, but they weren't there. So they were never able to take down our aircraft carriers, this hurt Japan.
December 8, 1941-we declared war on Japan.
December 11, 1941-Germany&Italy declare war on us.
Woah. Then we got done. Test starts on Monday. Joy.
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