Bruns mop up power point today...so exciting!!!...i thought bruns could have been a little more bubbly when he was giving his presentation it was hard for me not to doze off...
Hitler wanted to get to the Caucasus mountains
Battle of Leningrad- august 30th 1941- germans took over leningrads railroads cutting them off from rest of world-only way for leningrad to get supplies was through airdrop or crossing lake Ladoga
Erwin Rommel- Desert Fox
Bernard Montgomery-Monty-british
George Patton-US general
Battle of bulge was the most losses the US took in a battle
Dwight Eisenhower-head honcho(Ike was his nickname)
Doolitle's raid-mission at the end of the movie pearl harbor- took bombers off an aircraft carrier and bombed japan-
Hitler's suicide-hitler shot himself in the head and his wife poisoned herself...they got married the day that they commited suicide..
V-E day may 8,1945(end of the war)
Japan
Invaded Manchuria...controlled a lot of the country side but not the cities
Japan invaded french indochina in 1941 and then the US stopped trading oil with them and they needed it and got mad and then attacked pearl harbor and awoke a "sleeping giant"..
They attacked pearl harbor and the phillippines...we fought them for a couple months for the control of the phillippines...
Australia was under MacArthur's control after he was ordered to leave the phillippines and then he took control of australia and australia was ready for an attack on them by japan but they never got invaded..
Navajo Code Talkers-kept secret our information
Roosevelt wanted to bomb japan as soon as possible to get revenge and moral
had to make the bombers way lighter so they could go on the aircraft carriers and bomb japan
Doolittle's Raid-mission at the end of the pearl harbor movie...(sweet scene but thats beside the point)-took bombers off an aircraft carrier and bombed japan....
Nimitz-head of the navy against japan
Midway-huge turning point in war...we destroyed ships and japan was never the same after midway
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