MON:
Pearl Harbor
- 3 waves to attack planned but only 2 happened
- canceled the 3rd attack because they thought they were already very successful
Pearl Harbor Propaganda
- unified the country
- got people to join the military
- December 8th, 1941 - declaration of war
FDR's War Message
- Pearl harbor was not the only place they attacked
- also against Malaya, Guam, Hong Kong ...
Why did Japan attack?
- Us stopped trading with Japan
- Japan signed the Soviet - Japanese neutrality pact in April, 1941 guaranteeing that Japan and USSR would not go to war
Backdoor to Japan Conspiracy
- US wanted Japan to attack
Bataan Death March - Philippines - 1942
Preparation for the Invasion of Japan
- operation dowfall
- planned for October 1945
Manhatten Project
TUE:
Manhattan Project
- 1939-1945
- trinity test: July 16, 1945
- Enola Gay
- Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Potsdam Declaration - July, 1945
What did the United States do to defend against german u-Boots
- allied intelligence
- huff duff, RADAR, MAGIC
Eisenhauer
June 6th
WED:
what role did franc play in WWII
describe the role great britain had
role soviet union 20 pts
- non aggression oact
- japan, hitler
- invaded berlin
- declared war to japan
role united states
- beginning neutral
- pearl harbor
- supplies to countries
- lend and lease act
DDay and Pearl Harbor definitely mention
- chronologically and prganized
- free and vichy french
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Yalta-conference
- february 1945
- germany to 4 zones
- establishments of the united nations
- free elections allowed in the states of eastern Europe
- USSR promised to join the war against Japan
- VE day May, 8, 1945 (victory in europe day)
Women in WWII
- Rosie the Riveter
- factory workers
- stay at home mothers, canned foods
"Grow your own, can your own"
- nursing
- "The more women at work the sooner we win"
- Waves - women's Navy
- Forced to broadcast propaganda to the allied troops for japan
Native Americans-Najavo code talkers
THU:
- Kilroy engraving on the WWII Memorial in DC
OPA and Rationing
- prices got higher
- restrictions in sugar, meat, clothing rationing restricted nylon and silk
- five gallons of gas per week
- a black market developed in stolen or counterfeit stickers
- Japanese relocation camps
1. Return to Normalcy and neutrality
- neutrality
- land and lease act
2. pearl harbor
3. island hopping strategy
- coral see
- midway
- iwo jima
- atomic bombs
- VJ day
--------------- > War with japan
4. war w/ germany
- africa
- italy
- DDay
- VE day
- Yalta conference
5. homefront
6. why US won
- production, atomic bomb, better allies, women's role,
Great Britain
- throughout 20's trying to make sure WWI was over
- leauge of nation
- throughout 30's making appeasement, giving Hitler what he wanted
- Munich conference
- Declared war on Germany after invasion of Poland
- last allied power standing
- Battle of britain CHirchill's We will never surrender speech
- Hilter started bombing during the night
- Britain never surrendered
- helped fighting in Africa
Framce
- vichy government , free french
after WWI made sure they never had to worry about germnay ever again
- national line
- appeasement policy with britain towards Germany
- france declared war
- Hilter invades frnace and france surrenders
- Germany had 4 years of control
- free frnace underground organization fled to britain
- vichy france governmetn too over south of frnace
- eventually france helped defeating Germnay
Soviet Union
- after WWI communist
- stalin took over and started killing people
- 5 year plan for Soviet economy
- non aggression plan with germany
-invaded east
- germnay turned and invaded russia
- russian winter
- moscow, stalingrad, leningrad
- pushed germans all the way over to berlin
- huge amounts of casualties
- no retreat order -> shot when retreating
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