Transcript World War II Need to Know

World War II Need to Know
Isolationism of Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry Quasi-Neutrality
Lend Lease was a step toward war
Selective Service Act in 1940 1st peacetime draft
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Pearl Harbor
D Day in Normandy, France
Biggest challenge was fighting on 2 fronts
VE Day
VJ Day
Totalitarianism in our Enemies
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Militarism and the Emperor in Japan
Stalin
Hitler
Neither Hitler nor Stalin allowed their armies
to retreat strategically It was a bloodbath and
surrender by starved Germans happened Jan
31, 1945 on Russian front ending Hitler’s plan
to dominate Europe
Battle of Midway was the
turning point in Pacific
when code breakers broke
into Japanese plan
messages helping US win
and we began to take
offensive. Then we went
island hopping in order to
have bases to bomb Japan
directly
Japanese Internment
• Remote camps in Western US
• S Ct upheld because OF MILITARY LAW in
Korematsu
• Germans and Italian immigrants initially interned
were released
• None of the Hawaiin Japanese Americans were
interned. They were 1/3 of the Hawaiins then
• In 1943 all Niesi American born Japanese were
allowed to fight in Italy
Atom Bomb
• Atom Bomb was used to save millions of
American lives in expected street to street
fighting in Tokyo and make military invasion
unneeded
• The bomb might rein in the Soviets after the War
and the Manhattan Project that created it in New
Mexico is still in a top secret area today
• War had raised taxes and made us sell war bonds.
Imagine the cost without the bomb
Pearl Harbor
• A date that will live in infamy
• We had hesitated when Russia entered Stalin on the side of the
English Allies in June, 1941 with the Hitler attack on Stalin
• May, 1942 7,000 of 75,000 troops who surrendered to Japs died in
Bataan Death March
• Battle of the Coral Sea fought without seeing the other side in a
storm halted the Japs
• Hitler was the bigger fear so in the first 2 months emphasis was on
Hitler first Asia last
• U boats got sank with radar and depth charges faster than Germany
could build them
• Yet US industrial production of 2x what all the Axis Powers made
won the war with the help of rationing things like gas on our
homefront
Europe First
• Hitler was the bigger fear so in the first 2
months emphasis was on Hitler first Asia last
• U boats got sank with radar and depth charges
faster than Germany could build them
• Yet US industrial production of 2x what all the
Axis Powers made won the war with the help
of rationing things like gason our homefront
WAC Women’s Army Corps
African Americans originally
segregated to noncombat
moved to white combat units
only at the end of the war
Nurse corps
Holocaust
• Almost got Einstein
• The Night of the Breaking Crystal
• Not just Jews in Camps
Riots
• 100,000 whites battled blacks drawn North to
Detroit for jobs
• Navy attacked Zoot Suit Mexicans but no one
in Navy arrested
• FDR issued an executive order promising equal
access to federally funded jobs
• Our agriculture production for feeding US and
Europe soared with help of Mexican labor
braceras
End of War
• Battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima were
deadliest but lead to us being able to bomb
Japan at will from there
• March 1945 16 sq miles of Tokyo, Japan
bombed, killing 83,000 Japanese ands
wounding 100,000 in a single night - more
than the atomic bombs killed or wounded
Occupation of Germany and Japan
• Marshall Plan to rebuild war torn Europe with US
aid
• The Red Scare of McCarthyism violated
constitutional rights and was a period of
intolerance based on a fear of communism
spreading,
• The Soviets getting possession of nuclear bombs,
and a fear of political differences in US
• Our policy was containment of Soviets sphere
communism with military and economic aid
called Truman Doctrine
Superpowers of Soviet and US
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United Nations formed
Israel recognized
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Baby boom in 1950’s and 1960’s set off a rise
in consumer demand