Wednesday April 21, 2010
Today we had a talk about bullying on the website. Than we went into the projects. The US HomeFront is already done. Next is the African Front.
· Fought June 10th 1940 till may 16th 1943 fought in north Africa
· Started with Italy declaring war on Great Britain
· Operation torch
o It was the code name for the allies invasion of north Africa
o The 3 naval task forces were together called Western Naval Task Forch
o On the coast of French north Africa which is now morocco
o Involved 100,000 men and over 600 ships
o Land a force of 9,000 at Port Lyautry
o A force of 18,000
· Sidi Barrani Italy, Operation compass British, Second battle of El alamein Allied
· Operation Crusader British, Tunisian Campaign Allied
· Ultra code, North Africa
o Axis didn’t have anything like this
The US Pacific Front or The pacific war
o The Pacific War started on December 7th 1941
o After bombing of pearl harbor
o Officially ended on September 2 1945
o It was fought in the pacific oceans on islands surrounding Japan
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