Transcript WWII Notes Packet Hitler Crushes Europe

Hitler Crushes Europe:
 In 2 months, Hitler
Conquers most of
Europe
 Maginot Line:
System of heavily
armed bunkers
along
German/French
border
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
Name for
German’s
constant
bombing of
London
American Policies
Interventionism
Help the Allies
Isolationism
 Stay out of Europe’s
problems
Selective Service Act
First peace
time draft
in U.S.
history
Lend-Lease:
President got the
right to sell, lend
or lease military
supplies to any
nation for
“defense
purposes”
Atlantic charter
Joint public
statement
between
Roosevelt
and
Churchill.
Japanese Threat Increases
UN: United
Nations
Alliance: Japan
made an
alliance with
Germany and
Italy
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
 They promised to
defend one
another if
attacked by the
United States
U.S. Responds
 U.S. slowed then
eventually stopped
trade
 Yamamoto’s
Plan: He
suggested a direct
attack on pearl
harbor
Mobilizing the Home Front
4 Freedoms
 1. Freedom of Speech
and Expression
 2. Freedom of
Worship
 3. Freedom from
Want
 4. Freedom from Fear
Office of Civilian Defense
Slogan was
“An hour a
day for the
U.S.A”
War Production Board
Their job to
exercise general
responsibility
over the nation’s
economy
Gross National Product
Dollar value of
all goods and
services
produced
Wartime economy
 Inflation: General
rise in wages and
prices
 Rationing:
Coupons were
needed to purchase
many goods such as
meat and butter
Paying for a costly war: Income
tax now paid by everyone
War Bonds: Certificates that
promise the government
would pay the holder the
amount borrowed plus
interest after the war is over.
Labor Unions
Labor Unions:
issued a no
strike pledge
New Workers:
About 6 million
women joined
the workforce
Japanese Internment Camps
 Purpose: Round up
120,000 Americans
of Japanese heritage
and putting them
into one of 10
internment camps.
 Interment camps:
also called
relocation camps
Locations
10 total in the
states of
California,
Iowa, Utah,
Arizona,
Wyoming, and
Colorado
Pearl Harbor’s effects: Last straw
 Camp Conditions
 Food: Rationed 48
cents a day
 Nisei: American
born Japanese
 Homes: tarpaper
covered barracks
Court Cases
Hirabayashi vs. United States
 Rights not violated
Koremats vs. United States
 Rights not violated
Important Years & statistics
 Last Camp: Closed by 1945
 Nisei: 5,766 renounced their
citizenship
 1968: Government gave reparations for
lost property
 1988: Govt. gave 20,000 to each
surviving internee
December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor
attacked
 Pearl Harbor was
attacked
 Minorities in
uniform: Many
African Americans
joined the war effort
as cooks or laborers.
Germany’s policy changes
towards the Soviet Union
 Beginning of the War
 Germany and Soviet
Union sign a non
aggression pact
 Later during war
 Pact broken: in 1942
when Germany attacks
Russia.
 Battle of Stalingrad:
More Russians died in
one battle than the
number of U.S. deaths
in the whole war.
 1942: Risky assault on
north africa
General Erwin Rommel
 Nicknamed the
“desert fox”
 Invasion: allies
invaded Europe
through N. Africa
then Sicily
 1943: Italy announces
unconditional
surrender
D-Day: Codename Operation
Overlord
U.S. feared
triple peril:
attacks from
Above
(planes)
Surface
Below (subs)
European Front
 Sonar Technology:
used sound waves to
locate and sink Uboats
 Battle of the
Bulge: Last great
German offensive…
Allies won and
entered Germany
Holocaust: Great Destruction
 Hitler’s final solution:
were Death Camps
 About 6 million Jewish
men, women and
children were
massacred.
 About 6 million Slavs,
Gypsies, Communists,
homosexuals and other
civilians also murdered.
Roosevelt to Truman
Victory in Europe: is
being led by the United
States and Soviet Union
Roosevelt dies April
12, 1945: Truman
becomes President
Island hopping: U.S.
strategy to capture key islands
and build bases on them
Guadalcanal: U.S. victory
paves the way for more to
follow
Atomic bombs:
“little boy” dropped on
Hiroshima
2nd bomb dropped on
Nagasaki