WWII
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- Coral Sea
- off the North East coast of Australia important victory for allies japan tried to attack fort moresby new guinea british american win
- dissarmament
- stop arming stopping weapon production
- Midway
- 2 islands nort west hawaii american victory japan lost ships planes and skilled piolots
- Operation Torch
- led by Dwight D Eisenhower cut the axis supply lines from Italy
- Us supplied allies
- planes tanks jeeps guns ships, helped unemployment, led to population shifts
- August 6 1945
- the enola gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killibng more than 75000 people
- Battle of the Atlantic
- 1943 turned into allies favor due to the refinement of sonar equiptment
- brown shirts
- Hitlers youth
- Battle of Leyte
- largest and most decisive naval engagement in Pacific
- allies
- us france soviet union great britation
- Manhattan Project
- "top seceret" atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo New Mexico
- Zoot Suit Riots
- summer 1943 mexican american youths wore zoot suits (long jackets pegged trousers wide brimmed hats) attacked by sailors roaming Los Angeles
- El Alamein
- North Africa british victory
- General Douglas MacArthur
- commander of US troops in Pacific excellent strategist
- Guadalcanal
- solomon islands bloddy battle large loss of lives
- DDay
- planned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris
- Holocaust
- total burning 6 million jews 2/3 of jews in europe
- jennicide
- mass extermination of one groupe of people
- Hitler
- Germany, Meinkeomf, My Struggle responsiple for the Holocaust
- April 30 1945
- Hitler commints suicede in his bunker under the ruins of Berlin
- Kamikazes
- divine wind suicide Japanese planes
- FDR
- ran for president and won for the 4th term defeating thomas dewey
- Kristallnacht
- night of broken glass November 9 1938 1st time know jews were going to be targeted
- Iwo Jima
- Us marines attacked Iwo Jima
- The March on Washington
- protested discrimination against black workers A. Phillip Randolph led it was called off
- Mussolini
- Italy, Facist Party
- September 2 1945
- Japanese surrender aboard Missouri battle ship in tokyo bay
- unilateralism
- one sided independent action in foreign affairs
- Blitzcreek
- German ligtning warfare
- axis powers
- germany italy japan
- August 9 1945
- second atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki
- Pearl Harbor
- December 7 1941 got us into war, before isolationists we told Japan to withdraw from China, they didnt so we imposed a ban on trade to Japan
- Selective Training and Service Act
- required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for the draft
- total deaths bombing
- 240000
- Winston Churchill
- Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Yalta Conference
- set up plan for post war peace Roosevlet Churchill and Stalin
- Stalin
- Soviet Union
- War Production Board
- converted exsisting factories to war time production
- Invasion of Italy
- Allies decided to invade the island of sicily to gaine access to the Italian mainland (island hopping) June 1944 allies marched into rome and it became the 1st capital to fall
- Germany surrenders
- May 1945
- Stalingrad
- after this battle only 1/3 of the original german force remained alive
- Japanese Americans
- imprisoned in interment camps 119000 we thought they were spies
- July 26 1945
- allies demanded japans surrender japan refuses
- Battle of the Bulge
- Germanys last counterattack Germans created a dangerous bulge in Allied lines by pushing them westward into elgium and Northern France
- FDR dies
- Harry S. Truman. made atomic bomb decision
- Okinawa
- bloodiest battle of the Pacific war