Transcript World War II

Roosevelt’s Four Freedom’s
1941 State of the Union address, the president outlined the reasons for our country's
support of the Allied nations in World War II. In his speech, Roosevelt promoted the
concept of the four basic freedoms to which all people are entitled: freedom of speech,
freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
raising $132 million in war-bond sales.
NOTABLE DATES DURING WWII
Sept. 1, 1939
Dec. 7, 1941
Blitzkrieg, Hitler violates Non-Aggression
Pact with USSR
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona
June 6, 1944
D-Day
May 8, 1945
V-E Day
~ 1,200 ships, 4,000 landing craft, 300 mine sweepers,
132,500 soldiers, 10,000 planes, 10,000 paratroopers
Aug. 6 1945
“little boy”, Hiroshima(military center)
Aug. 9, 1945
“fat man”, Nagasaki(high pop.)
Sept. 2, 1945
70,000 dead 9 sec.
118,000 total dead, 67% city destroyed
73,000 dead, 40% city destroyed
V-J Day
USS Missouri  MacArthur Constitution
Great Arsenal for Democracy
Selective Service Act “GI’s” 16 million registered,
10+million drafted, 5 million volunteers
Women’s Army Corp  350,000+, non-combat positions, full benefits,
status & salary’s
6 million factory workers, “Rosie the Riveter”
Chief of Staff George Marshall
Minorities support  30,000 Mex.Am : 33,000 Japanese Am. :
13,000 Chinese Am : 25,000 Native Am. : 1 million African Am.
A.Philip Randolph, Union organizer & march on DC
Office of Scientific Research & Development- radar, sonar, pesticides, penicillin, atomic bomb
Aug. 1941 ; coast of Newfoundland , Atlantic Conference
• Joint proclamation against
Axis Powers(Germany,Italy,Japan)
• Formed basis of The United Nations
120,000 troops lost, 600 tanks/guns,
1,600 planes. Hitler 4/30/45
Feb, 1945 ; Yalta Conference, near the Black Sea
• Final defeat & occupation of Nazi Germany. Division of 4 zones
• Promise of free elections in eastern Europe & Soviet aid with Japan
“THE BIG THREE”
July, 1945 ; Potsdam Conference, Potsdam Germany
• Postwar Europe
• “prompt & utter destruction” & terms of unconditional surrender
A nuclear weapon of the "Little Boy" type, the
uranium gun-type detonated over Hiroshima.
It is 28 inches in diameter and 120 inches long.
"Little Boy" weighed about 9,000 pounds and
had a yield approximating 15,000 tons of high
explosives. (Copy from U.S. National Archives,
RG 77-AEC)
A nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man" type, the
plutonium implosion type detonated over
Nagasaki. 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches
long, the weapon weighed about 10,000
pounds and had a yield approximating 21,000
tons of high explosives (Copy from U.S.
National Archives, RG 77-AEC)
**see chart
“Little boy”
The mushroom cloud billowing up 20,000 feet
over Hiroshima on the morning of August 6,
1945 (Photo from U.S. National Archives, RG
77-AEC)
V-J Day in New York