Transcript Meanwhile, in the USA. . .

Meanwhile, in the USA. . .
U.S __________
• Americans
wanted to
_________out of
__________wars.
• FDR wanted to
help Britain
anyway
Lend Lease Act
• FDR sent
_______
_________to
foreign
countries.
KEY EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES…
Japan attacks ______ ______. America enters
______.
_________7, ______
_________ GAINS
• ___________ fell to
only 1.2% by 1944 and
wages rose 35%
• ______ too benefited
as production doubled
and income tripled
Internment camp
__________ _______ _______
Allied Powers
• The Allies were the _______,
_______ ________, and the _______
_________.These are called the “big
three.”
_______AIRMEN
• Among the brave men
who fought in Italy
were pilots of the
____ -_____ 99th
squadron – the
________ Airmen
• The pilots made
numerous effective
strikes against
Germany and _____
_____ distinguished
Unit Citations
_________ in workforce…
______ the _______
WOMEN JOIN THE FIGHT
• Under ______ _______
________ Corps (WAAC)
program women worked in
____-_______ roles such as
_______, ambulance drivers,
_______operators, and
_____.
______ for the _____
_______ ______
DEVELOPED
• Japan had a ______army that
would _______ _____ ______
of the Japanese mainland
• So Truman decided to use a
powerful new weapon
developed by scientists
working on the
_______
______ – the
Atomic Bomb
The _______ ________:
_____ ______,
NM
Major General
Lesley R. Groves
Dr. Robert
__________
I am become
death,
the shatterer
of worlds!
____________
______________
Enola Gay & Crew
_____ _____; ______ PRESIDENT
• President _________ did
not live to see V-E Day
• On April 12, _____ , he
suffered a stroke and died–
his ______ _______ __
______ became the
nation’s ______ president
KEY EVENTS AND BATTLES IN
EUROPE…
THE _________SOLUTION
• The Final Solution – a
policy of ________that
involved the
_________and
________killing of an
________population.
• Rested on the belief that
________ were superior
people and that the purity
of the “_______ _____”
must be preserved
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD, RUSSIA
• _______wanted to wipe out
_________– a major
________ center
• In the summer of 1942, the
Germans took the
offensive in the southern
Soviet Union
• By the winter of _____,
the Allies began to see victories
on land as well as sea
Battle of Stalingrad was a huge Allied
victory
• The ______ _____ ______
______ was the Battle of
________
Invasion of Normandy, France:
_______ _________ (__-____)
____-____ ______ ___,
1944
• ___-___was
D-Day was an ________________landing
– soldiers going from sea to land
the
_______
_____,
_____, &
____
operation in
military
history
_______Commits _______
April 30, ______
Cyanide & Pistols
The Führer’s Bunker
Mr. & Mrs. Hitler
Germany _______________April ‘____
____ - ____ Day (____8,
_______)
KEY EVENTS AND BATTLES IN THE PACIFIC…
Allied Counter-Offensive:
“_____- _________”
Battle of _______Island
• _____ ____ point
• U.S kept control of
the Pacific.
• It ended _______naval
________in the
________.
Battle of _____ _____
• Island hopping
became fact of the
war with Japan.
• Died: _______ US
________Japanese.
• This flag raising was
a ________ _______
_______to soldiers
on the island.
THE BATTLE FOR ______
• In April _____, U.S. marines
invaded Okinawa
• The Japanese unleashed
1,900 ________ attacks
sinking 30 ships and killing
5,000 seamen
• Okinawa cost the Americans
_______ marines and the
Japanese ________ soldiers
• 425 _____ _______that
were a part of the US
_________.
• Used their ______
language to send
_______ during the
______ War.
• Japanese could
_____crack their
________ language.
• _______ US _____the
Pacific War.
_______– ______ ____,
1945
© 70,000 killed
immediately.
© 48,000 buildings.
destroyed.
© 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning &
cancer later.
________– ______ ___,
1945
© 40,000 killed
immediately.
© 60,000 injured.
© 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning
& cancer later.
Why drop the Atomic Bomb?
• The _______ had shown they would
fight to the ____ _____, _____ and child.
• The atomic bomb _______ as many as 1
_______ U.S. lives, and possibly many
_______.
• ________ ________ said he dropped the
bomb to _____ the war.
______ surrenders
____-_____ _______ ______, 1945