Today in class we did presentations and we did ours first over the Pacific Front. The Pacific War was basically the US island hopping campaign to get to the mainland of Japan. We then did a little more on the Italian Frontin the last couple minutes o
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Philippines second attack
the natives to the country were enslaved by the japanese
they urged the US to retake the philippines
they invaded and pushed them back to manila where they laid siege
native militia helped to eliminate pockets of japanese , last
US Home Front; going on in the us to help win the war.
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 facto
African Front
Stalin wanted us to openly invade Europe to get the Germans out of Soviet Union but we went to North Africa instead. Stalin wasn't very happy. There was a lot of Vichy French troops in North Africa and they were on the Axis side. They sl
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Pacific Fron continued...
--Phillipines second attack-urged US to take back, invaded and pushed back to Manila
--Midway-Yamamoto wanted to bring in Pacific fleet, US broke
Today Austin and Matt presented their presentation.
Japan for the first time didn't win, so it was a win for us.
The Japanese had a unigue way of fighting. They had suicide bombers and the families of the bombers were highly acknowlegded. Thirty years
Saipan- bombardment began june 13 1944- crews on ships were inexperienced and had to attack from a distance d


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