Study slides 6-end, Pearl Harbor notes, and Japan notes!!
Notes:
-A large part of WWII was the war in the Atlantic and all the high seas
-Looking at the mat from Sept 1939-May 1941 Germany was winning becasue they were sinking alot of ships
*Germany Invasion of USSR- June 1941
-Final plan for Operation Barbossa
-Largest military operation in both man power and casualties
-Two million casualties involved
-Lenebroad in North, Mascow in middle, and Stalingrawd in the South
*Scorched Earth Policy
-Stalin demanded this of the Soviet troops as they retreated
-Destory everything so the Germans cant use it
*Soviet Winter
-December 6, 1941- April 30, 1942
-Through Germny off
-It took three years for the Soveits to push Germans back
*Atlantic Charter
-A meeting
-FDR and Churchill
-It set up war goals of the US and Great Britan
**Goals**
-To territorial gain
-MP territorial changes without the peoples support from countries
-Self determination
-Free trade
-Desturction of Nazis then setting up peaceful government in Germnay
-Freedom of the seas
-Abandon the use of force, disarmament, and a stronger League of Nation
*Peral Harbor
-Frence invades Indochina 1941
*Laos, Cambodia, and Viatnam
Pearl Harbor
In July, 1941, Japan invaded French Indochina
In response, the US stops trading with Japan
Due to embargo, Japan felt it had three options:
1. abandon ambitions in South East Asia
2. compromise with the US
3. attack Dutch and British possessions in the Pacific and US bases in the Pacific
Yamamoto felt that if Japan had any chance of winning a war against the US it must destroy the US Pacific fleet in a surprise attack
A surprise attack would give Japan at least six months to dominate SE Asia unopposed
Japan thought that the US then would face a long, bloody struggle and would settle for a negotiated peace that would allow Japan to do as it pleased in Asia
Tojo replaces Konoye as Premier of Japan. Konoye wanted to negotiate with the US. Tojo didn’t and had a low regard of the US
Tojo wanted war but Emperor Hirohito wanted on last peace attempt.
Japan offered this:
1. Open door policy everywhere and Japan would withdraw from
French Indochina
2. US would stop Lend-Lease Aid to China and start trading with Japan again
3. Japan would start peace talks with China
US refused plan on November 29th
US took a hard line stance with Japan now because we had deciphered their diplomatic code(Magic) and knew that they had some type of attack plan.
Magic Information
“November 29th is the deadline”
“things are automatically going to happen”
Japan felt that the key to success in the Pacific was air and sea power
-especially launching airplanes from aircraft carriers and submarines attacking enemy ships
Japan had ten aircraft carriers to our three in the Pacific(based in Pearl Harbor)
Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack Plan
1. destroy three aircraft carriers, eight battleships, seven cruisers and other small ships at Peral Harbor in Hawai
2. attack Wake Island and Guam
3. attack Malay and Hong Kong
4. attack Philippines, Dutch East Indies and Burma
Japanese attack force consisted of:
- 1. Six aircraft carriers
- 2. 360 airplanes
-Kate High level bombers
-dive and torpedo bombers
-Zero fighters
- 3. two battleships, three cruisers, eight destroyers
Admiral Nagumo commanded the force
To succeed, Japan had to travel 3,500 miles without being detected. That meant absolute radio silence and travelling through a vast, lonely expanse of the Pacific Ocean. This attack had to be a complete surprise.
“Backdoor to War” Conspiracy
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