Monday-
Soviet Union in WWII-
- Joseph Stalin
- USSR Prior to WWII
- Russia drops out of WWI to fight Bolshevik Revolution
- Russia became communist and changed name to USSR in 1922
- Purges and deportations to slave labor camps in Siberia
- Strengthened intelligence and secret service
- Created a "Cult of Personality"
- Nationalization and Collectivization of the Soviet economy
- Industrialized of the Soviet Union
- Five Year Plan
- In five years we want to increase industrial capacity
- Policies led to famine in Ukraine(5-10 million died due to genocide and starvation)
- Banned religion
- USSR in WWII
- Signed German-Soviet Union Aggression Pact in 1939 leading to the invasion of Poland
- Also invaded Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland in 1939
- Signed Neutrality Pact with Japan in 1941
- Invaded by Germany in June, 1941
- Stalin instituted his retreat and "scorched earth" policies
- Russian winter of 1941-42 changed the tide of the war
- Operation Barbarossa
- Battle of Berlin
- Post WWII Cold war
United States-
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7. 1941
- Bataan Death March
- Up to 10,000 Filipinos and 650 American POW's died during march
- Doolittle's Raid- April, 1942
- Jimmy Doolittle- Put in charge of pilots to bomb Tokyo
- Gave people hope
- Positive things that happened to US in WWII
- Battle of Coral Sea- First turning point in the Pacific
- Battle of Midway- Major turning point in Pacific
- US destroyed them
- Why were the US good at Midway?
- Magic- Code name for the Japanese
- We knew what they were doing, they didn't know what we were doing
- Pre-planned and demolished them
Tuesday-
United States Continued-
- Island hopping
- Saves time, money, lives
- Kamikazes
- Japanese dive bombers
- Airplanes
- Dive into sides of ships
- Battle of Okinawa
- Summer of 1945- Preparing for Invasion of Japan
- Operation Downfall- Code name for invasion of Japan
- Planned for October 1945
- Estimated to have over 1 million casualties
- Estimated to have 267,000 deaths
- Why did this never take place?
- We had the atomic bombs
- Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- Trinity Test
- Explained to press as an explosion of ammunition dump
- Enola Gay
- Airplane
- Weighted 10,000 pounds
- Designed to carry heavy
- VJ Day-
- Victory in Japan day
- August 14/15 1945 (UK Signed)
- September 2. 1945 (Official for US)
- When Japan officially signed on USS Missouri
Wednesday-
- Potsdam Conference- July 1945
- July 26, US, Great Britain, and China issued the Potsdam Declaration
- Announced the terms for Japan's surrender
- "We will not deviate from the. There are no alternatives."
- Potsdam Declaration
- Dismantle the current government of Japan (Excluding Emperor Hirohito)
- Allies (US) will occupy Japan
- Japan will consist only of the major islands (Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku) It will lost all territory gained in WWII and years leading to it
- Japanese military forces will be disarmed and allowed to return home
- There will be war crimes trials for the atrocities committed by Japan throughout WWII
- Democracy will be promoted as well as Freedom of Speech, religion, and of thought, as well as respect for fundamental human rights
- Japan will be allowed to have industry so they can make money to pay for reparations. World trade will also be enabled at some point.
- Allied (US) occupation of Japan will end once Japan accomplishes all the above points
War with Germany-
- German U-Boats
- Convoy System- Travels in wolf packs, traveled across the ocean together
- Allied Intelligence-
- Churchill and Roosevelt knew the important of intelligence in safeguarding Allied commerce to defeat the Axis Powers
- Allies shared info from RADAR and High Frequency Radio direction finding
- Radar provided a means of detecting vessels and aircraft above the surface
- HF/DF was used to locate the sources of enemy radio transmission such as submarines
- Allied Intelligence Leaders began sharing code-breaking secrets known as "very special intelligence" and classified under cover-names like "ULTRA" and "MAGIC"
- Enigma
- Machine that Germany used to transport their information through codes
- Hunter-Killers
- We would hunt, track down, and sink U-boats
- From airplanes
- D- Day
- Dwight Eisenhower
- General during WWII
- June 6, 1944
- D-Day- Day of the Day
- Cross the English channel invasion of allied powers against France
- We invaded France because Germany took it over 4 years later
- Three major Generals- Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley
- Dwight Eisenhower
- D-Day Facts
- June 6, 1944
- 156,000 allied troops from US, United Kingdom, Canada
- Causalities
- 6,603 (1,465 killed)
- June 11, with the beachheads firmly secured
- More than 326,000 troops had cross with more than 100,000 tons of military equipment
- Paris was liberated on August 25
- Germany surrendered on May 9. 1945
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Comments
Good but you didn't do week three.