WWII Test
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- Kamikazes
- divine wind
- Germany Surrenders
- May 1945
- Effects of production boom
- (1) helped unemployment (2) earnings doubled between 1939 & 1945 (3) led to pop. shifts (4) farms increased productivity
- August 6, 1945
- US plane ENOLA GAY dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing more than 75,000 people
- Production Boom
- Planes, tanks, jeeps, guns, ships
- Okinawa
- April 1, 1945 - boodiest battle - US deaths: 49,000 - Japanese deaths : 20,000
- The March on Washington
- protested discrimination against black workers - lead by A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH - called off
- Iwo Jima
- Feb 1945, US marines attacked Iwo Jima - 4000 MARINES killed, 20,000 japanese killed
- Hitler's suicide
- April 30, 1945
- Operation Torch
- Nov. 1942 - led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower - we cut azis supply lines from italy
- Invasion of Italy (July 1943)
- (1) Allied decided to invade the island of Sicily to gain access to the Italian mainland. (2) Italian kind named a new prime minister to replace Benito Mussolini and ordered his arrest (3) June 1944 - allies marched into Rome, it fell
- Manhattan Project
- "top secret" atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico
- Japanese Surrender
- September 2, 1945 aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
- FDR's death
- April 12, 1945 - New president HARRY S. TRUMAN
- War Production Board
- (1) converted factories to wartime production & supervised building new plants (2) assigned raw materials to industry (3) coordinated the prod. and distr. of consumer goods
- Coral Sea
- May 7 1942, off NE Australia - Important Allied Victory - Japan tried to attack Fort Moresby, New Guinea
- Selective Training and Service Act
- required all men between ages 21 and 35 to register for the draft
- Zoot Suit Riots
- summer 1943 - Mex. Am. youths wore zoot suits & got attacked by sailors roaming LA
- Battle of the Bulge
- Germany's last couterattack (sept. 1944) Germans pushed allied lines into Belgium & France, We pushed back and won
- El Alamein
- Oct 1942, N Africa - British Victory
- August 9, 1945
- second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- General Douglas MacArthur
- Commander of US forces in the pacific - led US and australian forces in a series of landing along the north coast of new guinea
- Guadalcanal
- Aug 1942, Solomon Islands - Bloody, large loss of life - US victory
- Battle of the Atlantic
- 1943 - turned in allies favor due to refinement of sonar aquipment
- Battle of Leyte
- largest and most decisive naval engagement in the pacific
- Japanese American Relocation
- 119,000 Japanese americans were imprisoned in internment camps
- Pearl Harbor
- Dec 7 1941, Japan wouldn't withdraw from China, so we imposed a ban on trade
- Stalingrad
- fall of 1942, Axis troops surrendered Feb 1943 - LEFT ONLY 1/3 OF ORIGINAL GERMAN FORCE
- D-Day
- June 6, 1944, Germans occupied Normandy, france - 150,000 allied troops involved - germans thought the invation would occur and Calais and Hitler didn't send reinforcements
- Yalta Conference
- Feb 1945, Attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin - Agreed to divide and occupy Germany and outlined plans for a new international peace organization
- Midway
- June 3-6 1942, 2 islands NW of HI - American victory - Japan lost ships, planes, and skilled pilots