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Chapter 17 WW II

Chapter 17 WW II. United States enters World War II 1941-1945. Vocabulary. Found in Glossary. Pages 569 - 579. Harry S. Truman Douglas MacArthur Dwight D. Eisenhower Omar Bradley George Patton. D-day Battle of the Bulge Battle of Midway Kamikaze. Leaders in WWII. Axis of Evil.

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Chapter 17 WW II

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  1. Chapter 17 WW II United States enters World War II 1941-1945

  2. Vocabulary Found in Glossary Pages 569 - 579 Harry S. Truman Douglas MacArthur Dwight D. Eisenhower Omar Bradley George Patton • D-day • Battle of the Bulge • Battle of Midway • Kamikaze

  3. Leaders in WWII Axis of Evil • Germany- Adolf Hitler • Japan- General Tojo • Italy- Benito Mussolini Allies • USA- Franklin D. Roosevelt • Great Britain- Winston Churchill • USSR- Joseph Stalin

  4. Axis as Aggressors • All pretty much Dictatorships GER/ITA Fascists and Japan Empire • 1936- Hitler remilitarized Germany • Mussolini announces Rome-Berlin Axis • Germany Signs Anti-Communism Pact with Japan • Japan Invades China • GER annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia • GER and USSR sign non-aggression pact • GER invades Poland

  5. So begins World War II • France and Britain declare war on the Axis • Soviets invade Poland • Germans started take over of Europe • Winston Churchill became prime minister • On the same day Germany started the invasion of France • A month and a half later France surrendered

  6. Tactics • German War tactics Blitzkrieg • Using tanks in small divisions to pierce the enemy line, then attack the line flank • Great speed was a must • To combat this divisions fought in columns

  7. "The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin....“- Winston Churchill • Luftwaffe (German Air Force) bombed England attempting destroy England’s Air defense and force a surrender • RAF (English Air Force) turned them away

  8. Germany attacks Soviet Union June 22, 1941 • Purpose was to rid the world communism • Very bloody with little regard for human life

  9. US policy towards Japan • US stopped selling oil and steel to Japan • Japan saw that as an act of war. • Japan wants raw materials • Singapore- (UK) was taken by Japan

  10. Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 • Tora, Tora, Tora, code name of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

  11. USS Yorktown Carrier

  12. USS Arizona • US battleship that was hit by the Japanese • Schofied Barracks were also hit • Wheeler Field- airfields attacked by Japan and Hichan Field – air force attacked • “A day in which will live in infamy” FDR

  13. Jeanette Rankin • Jeanette Rankin - a member of Congress to vote against the war.

  14. Japan moves to dominate the Pacific • The United States is the only power blocking Japan’s plan to conquer the Pacific • The Japanese had destroyed 75% of US naval power in the Pacific. • Philippines- was a US protectorate since 1898. • Douglas Macarthur- commanding officer.

  15. Commander of American forces in the Philippines. “ I shall return” General Douglas Macarthur

  16. Bataan Death March 1942

  17. Bataan Death March 1942 • American troops were captured by the Japanese. US troops were forced to march 6 days, 90 miles

  18. Internment camps were rounded up and put in camps. Lost property Japanese Americans

  19. Japanese-American Boy Scout Troop in an Internment Camp

  20. United States will fight a two front war. • European front “European Theatre”- North Africa, Italy • Eastern front, and northern France. • Pacific front “Pacific Theatre”- using air, naval, and man power, • Island hopping

  21. Operation Torch • United States troops will fight with British troops to stop Germans in North Africa. • Dwight Eisenhower- Commander of US troops.

  22. US Commander of all US troops- North Africa. His plan was to stop Hitler’s troops in North Africa. oil Dwight Eisenhower

  23. General George Patton • US tank commander under Eisenhower • “Old Blood and Guts” • Battle of the Bulge- largest battle of WWII

  24. US commander Served under Eisenhower “G.I. General” 5 star general Lived in El Paso General Omar Bradley

  25. Soft underbelly of Europe • US and British troops attacked Sicily then moved into Italy. • Patton and Montgomery

  26. Operation Overlord • Code name for the invasion of Europe by Allies more commonly known as D-Day on June 6, 1944. • Largest fleet of ships and men. • Normandy, France • Dwight Eisenhower commands the invasion forces at D-Day • What does the “D” in D-Day stand for?

  27. Major U.S. campaigns • Invaded North Africa • Storming the beaches at Normandy • 160,000 allied troops cross the English Channel onto France

  28. Battle of the Bulge • Last major offensive from Germany launched in December 1944.

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