Transcript Fighting World War II

Fighting World War II
Chapter 24
Sections 2 and 3
Americans Mobilize for War
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Atlantic Charter
– Winston Churchill
(Great Britain) and FDR
(America)
– Set foundation for the
United Nations
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The GI War
Diversity in the Armed
Forces
– Navajo code talkers
– Af. Am; Mex. Am, Jap.
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Women in the Armed
Forces; support
positions primarily
Fighting in North Africa and Italy
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The Battle of the
Atlantic
– Convoy system
– U-boat “wolf packs”
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The North Africa
Campaign
– German General Erwin
“Desert Fox” Rommel
– Casablanca Conference
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The Invasion of Italy
– Patton takes Sicily
– Mussolini overthrown
– “Bloody Anzio”
War in the Soviet Union
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The Germans Advance,
1941-1942
– 3.6 Million Germans
advance into the Soviet
Union
– “Scorched earth” policy
– Stalin begs for support
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The Battle of Stalingrad
– Russian army takes
advantage of Russian winter
– Red Army launches an
assault
– Turning point of the war in
the east
The Invasion of Western Europe
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The Air War
– The RAF bomb Germany
 Carpet bombing
– Allied bombing to soften
Germany for an invasion
Preparation for Invasion
– Buildup of troops in England
– Coast of France prepares for war
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
– Largest landing force in history
invade Normandy
Battle of the Bulge
– American forces move into
western Germany
– Nazi counterattack in Dec. 1944
– General Patton brings
reinforcements and U.S. stops
German advance
– Last chance for Germany to hold
off Allies and defend homeland
War Ends in Europe
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The Soviets Advance
– Move on Berlin
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U.S. moves from west
Soviets move from east
– Eastern front
– Soviets take Berlin in April 1945
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Germany Surrenders
– Hitler commits suicide on May
1, 1945
– Germany surrenders on May 8,
1945
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V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
The Yalta Conference
– Stalin, Churchill, and FDR (the
big three)
– Split Germany
– Stalin promised to enter war in
the Pacific
The War in the Pacific
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The Japanese Advance
– Clark Field
– The Philippines Fall
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General Macarthur forced to
escape
– “I will return”
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Bataan Death March
– The Battle of Coral Sea
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First aircraft carrier battle in
history
Prevented Japanese assault on
Australia
Allied Victories Turn the Tide
– The Battle of Midway
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Japan tries to lure rest of U.S.
fleet
Japan loses all 4 aircraft
carriers
– The Battle of Guadalcanal
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11,000 marines fight Japan in
the jungles
The War in the Pacific (cont.)
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Struggle for the Islands
– Island-Hopping
 U.S. trying to get closer to
Japan
– The Philippines Campaign
 Macarthur – “I have returned”
 Battle of Leyte Gulf
– Kamikazes
– Japan loses most of its
navy
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
– Iwo Jima
 25,000 Japanese hold off
110,000 marines for over a
month
– Okinawa
 Kamikaze and banzai fighters
 Bloody victory
Winning the Pacific
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The Manhattan Project – secret project
to develop an atomic bomb
– Albert Einstein/Enrico Fermi
 Jewish physicist
 Told FDR of capabilities of
nuclear weapons
– July 16, 1945, 1st nuclear bomb
tested in New Mexico
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
 Harry S. Truman
Japan Surrenders
– August 6, 1945
 “Little Boy” dropped on
Hiroshima
– August 9, 1945
 “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki
– August 15, 1945
 V-J Day (Victory in Japan Day)
 Sept. 2, 1945 official surrender