Canadians helped with D-day
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge -Hitler's last stand-
Leyte War
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Main Powers: GB, US, China, Soviet Union, France
Wilson's 14 points after WWI
Treaty of Versailles
5 power pact- limited naval size
Kellogg-Briand pact- pledged not to use war to settle disputes
Neutrality acts- keep the US out of war
Neutrality acts not designed to last forever
1935- banned trade of arms and war materials with any country at war
1936- forbade loans or credits to belligerents (countries at war)
1937- cash and carry system set up
Japan invades China in 1937- Roosevelt gives quarantine speech
Panay incident in 1937- American gunboat attacked on Chinese river
1939- Arms trade allowed for cash and carry with belligerent nations. US ships were barred from entering war zones
1940- Great Britain was given American destroyers for leases on military bases
Lend Lease Act- ends cash and carry, allows for more of lending and bartering
Selective Training and Service Act- first drafting not during peace time
War goals
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Philippines
Doolilttle's Raid
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Saipan
Battle of Guam
Battle of Iwo Jima
Bataan Death March in Philippines- 1942: 10,000 Filipino and 650 American POW's died. They were forced to March from one camp to another.
Operation Downfall- preparation of Japanese invasion. Estimated 267 thousand deaths. Summer 1945
Hiroshima- Little boy (not as powerful, smaller)
Nagasaki- Fat Man (big bomb, twice as powerful) not original target
Battle of the Atlantic- battle for Atlantic ocean. German U-boats, American surface ships.
Operation Overlord(D-day)- June 6, 1944
Operation Dragoon(Invasion of Southern France)
Battle of the Bulge
Operation Varsity(Invasion of Western Germany)
Siegfried Line(WestWall)- tough fighting
Convoy system- many ships used to sink U-boats
Radar- above water
HF/DF- under water
ULTRA- German code
MAGIC- Japanese code
Yalta Confrence- Feb. 1945: Last time WWII dictators would meet
United Nations established
Germany was divided in 4 zones
Free elections allowed in states of Eastern Europe
Russia who promised to join, joined was against Japan for under a week
Women played a big part in the war, became nurses, went out and worked, secretaries, just went out and got jobs
Women's army core- didn't fight, but helped out behind the scenes
Waves- Women's navy
WASP- Women's airforce, trained to become pilots
Native Americans- Navajo indians were code talkers whom sent code via their language to keep American messages from being broke
Tuskegee Institute/Airmen- Native American bombers
Asian-Americans fought in war, helped out war cause mainly against Germany
Hollywood- Escape for citizens, spread propaganda
United Service Organization(USO)- went around and entertained soldiers. Bob Hope
OPA and rationing- Office of Price Administration
Limited to 5 gallons per week
War Production Board- enforced manufacturing and production
War Bonds- $185 billion dollars from citizens to government. The government would pay them back later (about ten years)
Japanese Camps- Japanese-American people sent to relocation camps
Why we won WWII- War production, Allies, better technology. Battle strategies, Hitler's mistakes, ULTRA and MAGIC(Codes)
Causes and effects of WWII- America became more powerful, Cold War, Vietnam, free and communist state.
Major events
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