taxes
raised to pay for war
economy,
controls on prices and wages.
labor;
employment rate went down, women got jobs.
farmers were affected. people moved into city to work in factories.
students got out of school to farm
African Front;
montgomery, main british general.
rommel, main german general.
george patten jr,
rommel patten, died of accident and pills
Italian Front;
italian govt surrendered after we attacked them.
D-day;
largest amphibious military invasion
invasion on nazi europe
france gb america canada
why success?
weather was stormy so hitler let people go home. thought we were gonna invade from north.
american general, dwight d eisenhower. mongomery british was the commander of the ground forces on d-day
patton was in command of the 1st army group which didnt exist and confused the germans to thinking that the attack will come further north. calais.
operation over lord
us kept pushing germany back
battle of the bulge; ardennes mts. most deaths. 19,000 americans.
germany being trapped between us and su.
Pacific
US and Japan.
japs wanted resources, werent getting any from US.
macarthur, us general.
battle coral sea; japan didnt win. us win by default.
Mediterranean
Spying Game
(espionage)
obtaining secret info agaist a group or person and return info
french, one legged lady.
takeo yoshikawa, came to pearl harbor.
reinhard gehlen, germany, had a whole network of spies under him. gave su info to us.
morris cohen, atomic manhattan project.
interrogation. many multi-lingual spies
internment camps. put where people could not spy.
enigma machine; germans, whole network thruout captured land germany had to send codes. us could decode and read messages.
german intercept, ultra. bombe = decoder.
Yalta / Potsdam conference.
stalin, churchhill, FDR attended
last time together.
feb 11 1945
break up germany four zones.
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new president (truman)
first atomic bomb.made military strong.
set up zones in germany
break up nazi party, govt and laws
nazi criminals to trial.
russia could take land from the soviet zone and could have 10% of the industrial equipment of the western zones.
disagree.
how to divide germany.
russian influence over the countries of eastern europe.
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