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WWII Notes Packet

WWII Notes Packet. Hitler Crushes Europe:. In 2 months, Hitler Conquers most of Europe Maginot Line: System of heavily armed bunkers along German/French border. Battle of Britain. The Blitz. Name for German’s constant bombing of London. American Policies. Interventionism . Isolationism.

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WWII Notes Packet

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  1. WWII Notes Packet

  2. Hitler Crushes Europe: • In 2 months, Hitler Conquers most of Europe • Maginot Line: System of heavily armed bunkers along German/French border

  3. Battle of Britain The Blitz • Name for German’s constant bombing of London

  4. American Policies Interventionism Isolationism • Help the Allies • Stay out of Europe’s problems

  5. Selective Service Act • First peace time draft in U.S. history

  6. Lend-Lease: • President got the right to sell, lend or lease military supplies to any nation for “defense purposes”

  7. Atlantic charter • Joint public statement between Roosevelt and Churchill.

  8. Japanese Threat Increases • UN: United Nations • Alliance: Japan made an alliance with Germany and Italy

  9. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis • They promised to defend one another if attacked by the United States

  10. U.S. Responds • U.S. slowed then eventually stopped trade • Yamamoto’s Plan: He suggested a direct attack on pearl harbor

  11. Mobilizing the Home Front 4 Freedoms • 1. Freedom of Speech and Expression • 2. Freedom of Worship • 3. Freedom from Want • 4. Freedom from Fear

  12. Office of Civilian Defense • Slogan was “An hour a day for the U.S.A”

  13. War Production Board • Their job to exercise general responsibility over the nation’s economy

  14. Gross National Product • Dollar value of all goods and services produced

  15. Wartime economy • Inflation: General rise in wages and prices • Rationing: Coupons were needed to purchase many goods such as meat and butter

  16. Paying for a costly war: Income tax now paid by everyone • War Bonds: Certificates that promise the government would pay the holder the amount borrowed plus interest after the war is over.

  17. Labor Unions • Labor Unions: issued a no strike pledge • New Workers: About 6 million women joined the workforce

  18. Japanese Internment Camps • Purpose: Round up 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage and putting them into one of 10 internment camps. • Interment camps: also called relocation camps

  19. Locations • 10 total in the states of California, Iowa, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado

  20. Pearl Harbor’s effects: Last straw • Camp Conditions • Food: Rationed 48 cents a day • Nisei: American born Japanese • Homes: tarpaper covered barracks

  21. Court Cases Hirabayashi vs. United States Koremats vs. United States • Rights not violated • Rights not violated

  22. Important Years & statistics • Last Camp: Closed by 1945 • Nisei: 5,766 renounced their citizenship • 1968: Government gave reparations for lost property • 1988: Govt. gave 20,000 to each surviving internee

  23. December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor attacked • Pearl Harbor was attacked • Minorities in uniform: Many African Americans joined the war effort as cooks or laborers.

  24. Germany’s policy changes towards the Soviet Union • Beginning of the War • Germany and Soviet Union sign a non aggression pact • Later during war • Pact broken: in 1942 when Germany attacks Russia. • Battle of Stalingrad: More Russians died in one battle than the number of U.S. deaths in the whole war. • 1942: Risky assault on north africa

  25. General Erwin Rommel • Nicknamed the “desert fox” • Invasion: allies invaded Europe through N. Africa then Sicily • 1943: Italy announces unconditional surrender

  26. D-Day: Codename Operation Overlord • U.S. feared triple peril: attacks from • Above (planes) • Surface • Below (subs)

  27. European Front • Sonar Technology: used sound waves to locate and sink U-boats • Battle of the Bulge: Last great German offensive… Allies won and entered Germany

  28. Holocaust: Great Destruction • Hitler’s final solution: were Death Camps • About 6 million Jewish men, women and children were massacred. • About 6 million Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals and other civilians also murdered.

  29. Roosevelt to Truman • Victory in Europe: is being led by the United States and Soviet Union • Roosevelt dies April 12, 1945: Truman becomes President

  30. Island hopping: U.S. strategy to capture key islands and build bases on them • Guadalcanal: U.S. victory paves the way for more to follow • Atomic bombs: • “little boy” dropped on Hiroshima • 2nd bomb dropped on Nagasaki

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