Monday- Absent
Tuesday- US presentation
Wednesday- Review
Thursday- Review/ video
Friday- Video
The Blitz:
- many people died from German bombing
- Children and elderly evacuated to countryside
Food ration:
- not much
Battle of Britain:
- Use of aircraft mostly
- between summer and fall 1940
- Germany bomb Britain all the time
- that's when propaganda came in
- Great Britain won it because of their better air force
Munich Conference:
- It was a settlement that was permeating Nazi Germany and parts of Czechoslovakia
- Germany got Sudetenland
- Hitler said that the only thing they won't -> won't take other countries then
- Churchill criticized it, didn't wanted to give it to Germany
Military:
- was volunteer army
- early they suffered much
Fall of Singapore:
- British military base
- Japan won the battle of Singapore
- largest surrender of British led personnel in history
At the end of WWI, they wanted to make sure a war never happens -> signed a bunch of pacts and stuff. The Great Depression happened and that change a lot. They fought in Europa and in North Africa. Bernard Montgomery is the British General. They won because of the will to survive, ultra (code for Germany).
UNITED STATES
American's Leader:
- FDR: President; great friends with Churchill; helped to create the United Nation
- Eisenhower: Commander of D-Day; organized the North Africa attack
- Patton: famous for Pistols; led troops in Europa and North Africa
- MacArthur: led troops at the Philippines; was in charge of US forces in Japan; after that he quiet the military but promised to return, caused the Japaneses to surrender; FDR didn't like him
Treaty of Versailles:
- United States wanted to punish Germany more
Kellogg Briand Pact:
- outlawed war
- 15 countries signed it
Neutrality Acts:
- No exporting anything to do with war to countries at war
- Forbade US Citizen to get on hostile ships are trade with hostile countries
- Removed the what the other neutrality act did and replaced it with "cash and carry"
When and why did we become involved:
- December 8, 1941; Pearl Harbor attack
- Nazi's sinking ships
What happened when we did became involved:
- Tides were turned
- Nagasaki and Hiroshima
- Axis powers were defeated
Tuesday:
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- president
- German offensive
- helped create united nations
- General MacArthur
- helped Philippines
- Japanese surrender
- sometimes criticized
- sometimes praised
- General Patton Jr.
- complicated military man
- pistols
- fierce determination
- lead soldiers
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- commander of D-day
- North Africa attack
- Treaty of Versailles
- June 28, 1918
- end of WWI
- ended war between Germany and allied powers
- German boundaries reassigned
- Kellogg Briand Pact
- no war
- Pact of Paris
- 15 countries signed
- Neutrality Acts
- 1935- no exporting anything to do with war to countries at war
- 1937- forbade U.S. citizens to get on hostile ships or trade with hostile countries
- 1939- removed what the neutrality acts did and replaced with cash and carry
- Can involved
- pearl harbor
- Nazi's sinking ships
- Home front
- victory gardens
- war bonds
- Rosie the Riveter
- Tides of war turned
- new soldiers
- special soldiers
- new equipment
- iron fist
- better equipment
- Major Battles
- Pearl Harbor
- Japanese surprise attack
- Hawaii
- D-day
- delayed because of weather
- Americans on Omaha beach and Utah
- Heavy resistance
- eventually took over
- Canadians helped
- attacked Juno beach
- Iwo Jima
- Japanese island
- US took it over
- heavy resistance
- Battle of Midway
- naval battle
- most decisive
- defeated Japan
- turning point Pacific campaign
- Battle of the Bulge
- last major German offensive
- attempted to split allied armies
- caught off guard
- Leyte War
- naval battle
- destroyed much of the Japanese surface fleet
- virtually ended their ability to move goods
- Okinawa
- last and biggest
- at stake - air bases vital to attack on Japan
- Japanese held out for many weeks
- Manhattan Project
- atomic bomb creations
- very secretive
- led by the US with help from UK and Canada
- Island Hopping
- leapfrogging
- take over key islands
- get in range for bombing Japan
- Pearl Harbor
- Impact
- great depression ended
- economy
- super power
- nuclear weapons
- jobs
Bruns Notes
- Major Allied Powers
- Great Britain
- Soviet Union
- United States
- China
- France
- US after WWI
- never signed Treaty of Versailles
- Warren Harding won the 1920 election - promised to "return to normalcy"
- 1920's and 1930's focused on US
- Neutrality in General
- passed neutrality acts in 1930's
- keep us out of war - not get involved
- Neutrality Acts of 1935
- designed to last six months
- banned US trade of arms and war materials with any country at war
- declared US citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk
- Neutrality Acts of 1936
- renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months
- forbade all loans or credits
- Neutrality Acts of 1937
- set to expire after 2 years
- set up the "cash and carry" system
- countries had to give us cash
- Panay incident
- american gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan
- Neutrality Act of 1939
- cash and carry system
- Bases for destroyers
- fifty US destroyers were given to Great Britain for exchange for land rights for 99 years on British colonies for naval or air base purpose
- End of US neutrality - lend lease act
- allowed the US to sell, lend, or give war materials to nations the US wanted to support
- US gave $50 billion to allied nations throughout the war
- German U-boats
- FDR announced that he ordered the US navy to attack German and Italian war ships in the "waters which we deem necessary"
Manhattan Project:
- Atomic bomb creation
Island hopping:
- Leapfrogging
- takes over islands
Impacts on America:
- ended the Great Depression
- gave women and men jobs
- nuclear weapon were invented
- we became a super power
Main allied Powers: Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, France
Island hopping
- Defeating one island and moving to another
Bataan Death march
- POW forced to march from one camp to another
- lack of food
- lack of medical detention
- over worked
Operation downfall
- Preparing for invasion of Japan
- over 1 million casualties
Manhattan Project
- Making of atomic bombs
- tested in new mexico
Enola Gay
- Plane built specifically to carry atomic monbs
Hiroshima bombing
- Uraniame
- "Little boy"
- target was to take out bridge
Nagasaki bombing
- Plitoniam
- "Fat man"
VJ day
- Surrender of Japan
WAR WITH GERMANY
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Wanting control of the Atlantic ocean
- German UBoats
- Trying to destroy goods
- Operation torch
- invasion of Morocco
- Operation Avalanche
- Invasion of Italy
- Operation Dragoon
- Invasion of Southern France
- Battle of the bulge
- Hitlers last major offensive
- Bloodiest for US in WW2
- Operation Varsity
- Invasion of western Germany
- The german westwall
- Convoy system
- Surround one ship with many ships
- Attack the one shi[
- Allied Intelligence
- RADAR
- Detects things coming in above water
- HF/DF
- Dectects things under water
- RADAR
- Depth charges
- bombs under water
- Yalta Conference
- Last time three dictators met
- Agreed to establish the United nations
- Germany separated into four zones
- US
- British
- Soviet Union
- French
- Frees elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
- Aimed at Germany
- VE day
- May 8, 1945
- Germany surrenders
HOMEFRONT
- Rosie the Riveter
- Represented women in WW2
- Stay home
- Secretaries
- Nurses
- Regular job
- Women helped win the war
- Womens army corps
- womens version of army
- WASP
- Airforce for women
Naviho
- Code talkers
African Americans
- Worked on farms
- Tuskegee Airmen
- Bombing unit
- Asian americans
- Fought in war
- work on farms
Holly wood
- Entertained people from great depression
- Entertained troops
- Bob Hope
- John Wayne
OPA
- Rationing and price controls
- 5 gallons of gas per week
War production board
- Production
Japenese camps
- Forced to move into camps
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