Transcript America in World War II - Johnston County Schools

America in World War II
The Shock of War
Americans unified after Pearl Harbor
 Unfortunately, 110,000 JapaneseAmericans were placed in internment
camps
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Korematsu vs. U.S
Supreme Court upholds Japanese
internment
 Says U.S. government could intern
groups of people seen as a threat to
national security
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Building the War Machine
Massive military orders ended the
Great Depression
 Production of military essentials grew
 Government imposed rationing and
halting of manufacturing of nonessential items
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Women Take Over the Labor
Force
Women took over the jobs of men in
factories
 Rosie the Riveter became their
symbol
 Women proved equal to men in
keeping the American industrial
machine rolling
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Women Take Over the Labor
Force
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Provided jobs within the military for
women during WWII
 WAAC
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African Americans in the War
African Americans served in combat
units at the end of the war
 Tuskegee Airmen: all black fighter
pilot squadron
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Japanese Americans in the War
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Originally not accepted, but could serve
starting in 1943
442nd became the most decorated unit in
US History
Native Americans in the War
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Navajo Indians were used for
communications in the Pacific
Japanese were never able to break their
code
Known as “Code Talkers”
Douglas Macarthur
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Leader of the
American forces
fighting Japan in
the Pacific
The Pacific
Early in the war Japan had overrun
the Pacific and controlled the region
 1942, Japanese overtook the
Philippines from the U.S.
 Captured soldiers were forced to walk
the Bataan Death March
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Chester Nimitz
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Leader of
American naval
forces in the
Pacific
Island Hopping
 U.S.
strategy in the Pacific
 Take Japanese held islands
one at a time until U.S.
reached the Japanese
mainland
Battle of Midway
U.S. navy planes bomb and destroy
much of the Japanese navy
 Became a turning point in the battle in
the Pacific
 Showed that whoever owned the
skies, owned the war
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War Against Germany
By 1942, the Soviets had defeated
Germany at Stalingrad
 The British defeated Erwin Rommel
and Germany at El Alamein
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Casablanca Conference
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Roosevelt and Churchill agree to only
accept “unconditional surrender” from
the Germans
Tehran Conference
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The Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill,
and Stalin) agree to launch
simultaneous attacks against
Germany
June 6, 1944-the U.S. invades
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leader of the
Allied forces in
Europe
 Planned the DDay invasion
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Battle of the Bulge
Facing defeat, Hitler launches one
final desperate attempt to break
through Allied lines
 Attempt failed and Allies move into
Germany
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust
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The systematic murder, or genocide, of
Jews and other groups in Europe by the
Nazis before and during WWII
Over 6 million Jews were murdered
Potsdam Conference
Allied leaders discuss unconditional
surrender of Japan
 Soviet Union pledges to declare war
on Japan
 Truman learns that the U.S. had
successfully exploded an atomic
bomb
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V-E Day
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May 7, 1945
declared V-E Day
(Victory in
Europe)
Atomic Bombs
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August 6, 1945, the U.S. drops atomic
bomb on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 the U.S. drops atomic
bomb on Nagasaki
Over 250,000 people killed the two
bombings
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
September 2, 1945 V-J Day