Continued with the test questions that we've been working on for a while. Picking up on the Nuremburg Trials
27. Nuremburg Trials: held from 1945 to 1949 where the Allied troops prosecuted people who were associated with the Nazis. The trials took place from time to time from November 19, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US: Made to put Japanese American into Internmant camps around the western part of the US. We didn't exactly trust these Japanese-Americans, so we put them into camps so then they would be kept under a fairly close eye. The people in the camps weren't being held as prisoners or as slave laborers.... they actually had a pretty normal life in the camps. The camps weren't concentration camps either. There were also schools provided and other things needed to live well. There was some injustice though. The Japanese-Americans were forced out of their original homes in order to go to the camps.
29. GI (General Issue...common soldiers) Bill of Rights: Common soldiers were placed back into civilian life that they weren't used to after they came back from their service. The bill was to help them throughout the rest of their life. It helped people get jobs, education, and homes for the ones that served our country. It also enhanced our Nation's competitiveness throughout the years after WWII.
30. Why did the Allies win WWII? ~ Hitler's mistakes in trying to fight a multi-front war were HUGE, whether that be in Africa, the Soviet Union, France, and other locations. He over-extended his army and his troops were spread too thin. Attacking the Soviet Union was a depletion and waste of Germany's resources, since it was a complete failure. One of the major causes for our victory would be that the US made sooooo many goods that were needed for the war. The women in the factories that made all of those resources were a huge factor too. With all of the extra production, we had more help than any of the other countries that fought in WWII. The US also fought very well with other countries. Great Britain worked together extremely well, compared to Germany or Japan or the Soviet Union. Technically, they were allies, but not really. Ultra and Magic was huge too (Navajo code talkers, where we could know what Germany was doing but Germany couldn't know what we were doing.) The atom bomb gave us a huge advantage over the axis powers also because we could take out areas that might've posed a threat, but weren't big enough that, if they were bombed, they wouldn't set off a spark of anger in the Axis powers to revolt.
Battle of the Bulge: December 16 1944, and it took place in Ardennes (a country in southeast Belgium). It was when Hitler thought that the alliance would not be strong enough to stand a major attack. So Hitler plans a massive offensive attack against the Allies, but most of it was directed towards the Americans. When the Germans advanced on the Americans, it created a bulge in the American lines, which is now known as The Battle of the Bulge.
My topic for the Cold War project is the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
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