AMERICAN HISTORY

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AMERICAN HISTORY

• CHAPTER 19 SECTION 3
• THE U.S. AT WAR!

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PSSA WORDS

• 1. CASUALTIES-ANYONE HURT OR KILLED IN WAR OR
  ACCIDENT.
• 2-DEVASTATION-TO RAVAGE OR DESTROY

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PEARL HARBOR

• DEC. 7, 1941
• USA LOSES 5 BATTLESHIPS, 3 DESTROYERS.
• 250 AIRPLANES DESTROYED.
• 4,500 PEOPLE KILLED OR WOUNDED.

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Pearl Harbor Photos
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Pearl Harbor Video
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• AXIS POWERS GERMANY, JAPAN, AND ITALY.
• JAPAN TAKES OVER GUAM, WAKE ISLANDS (USA), HONG
  KONG AND SINGAPORE (BRITISH), PHILLIPINES, AND
  THAILAND.
• JAPAN ALSO TAKES OVER BURMA AND EAST INDIES.

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WESTERN FRONT

• AXIS FORCES OCCUPY NEARLY ALL OF EUROPE.
• GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL (THE DESERT FOX) LEAD FORCES
  IN NORTH AFRICA.

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• SUMMER/1942 GERMANY INVADES SOVIET UNION
  CAPTURING THE UKRAINE. GERMANY ATTACKS
  STALINGRAD, LENINGRAD, AND MOSCOW.
• THE SUCCESS OF THE WAR FOR THE ALLIES DEPENDED IF
  THE SOVIET UNION COULD HOLD ON UNTIL USA GOT
  INVOLVED IN WAR.

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Battle of Leningrad Photo
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• STALIN PLEADS FOR ASSISTANCE.
• USA/BRITAIN TELL STALIN THAT HELP IS STILL A YEAR
  AWAY.
• SEPT/1942 SOVIETS DEFEND STALINGRAD OVER FOUR
  MONTHS.
• STALINGRAD IS REDUCED TO RUBBLE AND SOVIETS
  SUFFER SEVERE CASUALTIES.

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Joseph Stalin
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• NOV/1942 SOVIETS COUNTERATTACK BEAT BACK AXIS
  POWERS FROM RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND EASTERN EUROPE.
• GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDER.
• BUT THE WAR STILL RAGES ON IN OTHER AREAS.

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European Map
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NORTH AFRICA ITALY

• GENERAL PATTON DEFEATS ROMMEL IN NORTH AFRICA.
• ROMMEL ESCAPES BUT 250,000 GERMAN TROOPS
  SURRENDER.
• AUG/1943 BRITISH AND USA FORCES INVADE ITALY AND
  DEFEAT GERMAN AND ITALIAN TROOPS.

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Gen. Patton
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• MUSSOLINI IS OVERTHROWN AND IS ASSASSINATED BY
  ITALIANS.

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NORMANDY INVASION

• JUNE 6, 1944 GREATEST AMPHIBIOUS FORCE IN
  HISTORY.
• 176,000 TROOPS CARRIED IN 5,000 VESSELS CROSS THE
  ENGLISH CHANNEL AND LAND IN FRANCE.

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Normandy Invasion Photo
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• GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER AND GEORGE PATTON
  LEAD TROOPS AND ON JULY 25, 1944 THE USA TROOPS
  BREAKS THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES.
• SEPT/1944 ALLIES INVADE GERMANY.

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SOVIETS ADVANCE FROM EAST

• JAN/1944 SOVIETS DEFEAT GERMANS AT LENINGRAD.
• SOVIETS FREE OTHER EASTERN EUROPE NATIONS FROM
  GERMAN CONTROL (HUNGARY, ROMANIA, AND BULGARIA)

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GERMANY SURRENDERS!

• DEC/1944 HITLER ORDERS A COUNTERATTACK IN
  BELGIUM.
• THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE WAS THE LAST GERMAN
  OFFENSIVE.
• ALTHOUGH ALLIED LINES BULGED THE GERMANS COULD
  NOT BREAK THROUGH THE ALLIES LINE.

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Video
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• MARCH/1945 ALLIES ADVANCE
• AND MOVE
• INTO THE HEART OF GERMANY.
• SOVIETS CAPTURE BERLIN IN APRIL, 1945.

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IMPORTANT DATES

• APRIL 12, 1945 FDR DIES OF HEART ATTACK.
• APRIL 28, 1945 MUSSOLINI ASSASSINATED.
• APRIL 30, 1945 HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE.
• MAY 7, 1945 GERMANY SURRENDERS.

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HOLOCAUST

• DELIBERATE EXTERMINATION OF JEWS AND OTHER
  CIVILIANS.
• 12 MILLION PEOPLE (6 MILLION JEWS) KILLED AT
  CONCENTRATION CAMPS SUCH AS AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU,
  BUCHENWALD.

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Holocaust Photos
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Holocaust video 1
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Holocaust Video 2
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC

• BATTLE OF MIDWAY ISLANDS
• (MAY 1942).
• ALLIES WIN-1ST MAJOR DEFEAT OF JAPANESE.

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Battle of Midway Photos
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• AS A RESULT
• SLOWED JAPANESE ADVANCE ACROSS PACIFIC OCEAN.
• BROUGHT AN END TO THE THREAT OF HAWAII.
• ENDED JAPANESE NAVAL SUPERIORITY IN THE PACIFIC.

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ISLAND HOPPING

• JAPAN CONTROLLED MANY ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC
  OCEAN.
• ALLIES USE ISLAND HOPPING TO CUT OFF JAPANESE
  SUPPLY LINES.
• USA (MACARTHUR) USED CAPTURED ISLANDS AS BASES
  FOR FUTURE ATTACKS.

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MacArthur
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WAR IN THE PACIFIC CONT.

• AUG/1942 ALLIES DEFEAT JAPANESE AT GUADALCANAL
  (SOLOMON ISLANDS).
• SIX MONTH BATTLE ON GROUND, AIR, AND SEA.

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IWO JIMA OKINAWA

• MAR/1945 USA DEFEATS JAPANESE AT IWO JIMA.
• JUNE/1945 USA DEFEATS JAPANESE AT OKINAWA.
• USA LOSES OVER 20,000 SOLDIERS.

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Iwo Jima Photo
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• JAPAN STARTED USING KAMIKAZE PILOTS WHO FLEW
  SUICIDE MISSIONS INTO AMERICAN SHIPS.
• USA BEGINS BOMBING JAPAN WITH B-29 BOMBERS.
  HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE CIVILIANS ARE
  KILLED.
• STILL, JAPAN REFUSES TO SURRENDER

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Video
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JAPAN SURRENDERS

• AMERICA HAD SECRETLY DEVELOPED ATOMIC WEAPONS.
• USA GIVES JAPAN FINAL WARNING STATING THAT UTTER
  DESTRUCTION WILL OCCUR IF THEY DONT SURRENDER
• JAPAN STILL REFUSES TO SURRENDER.

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Kamikaze Attack
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Kamikaze Attack 2
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Little Boy (Hiroshima)
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Hiroshima aftermath
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• AUGUST 6, 1945 USA DROPS ATOMIC BOMB DESTROYING
  HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.
• OVER 60 OF HIROSHIMA IS DESTROYED.
• JAPAN STILL REFUSES TO SURRENDER.

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• AUGUST 9, 1945 USA DROPS 2ND ATOMIC BOMB ON
  NAGASAKI, JAPAN.
• OVER 50 OF NAGASAKI IS DESTROYED.
• BOTH ATTACKS KILL OVER 150,000 JAPANESE PEOPLE.
• SEPT 2, 1945 FINAL SURRENDER OF JAPAN.

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Fat Man (Nagasaki)
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Burn victim from Atomic Bomb
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Video
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WARTIME DIPLOMACY

• ATLANTIC CHARTER 26 NATIONS JOIN ALLIES AGREE
  NOT MAKE SEPARATE PEACE TREATIES WITH AXIS
  POWERS.
• USA DID NOT WANT SOVIETS SIGNING SEPARATE PEACE
  AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY.

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YALTA CONFERENCE

• FEB/1945 THE BIG THREE STALIN, FDR AND
  CHURCHILL.
• THEY AGREE TO OCCUPY GERMANY AFTER THE WAR AND
  START A WORLD PEACE ORGANIZATION.

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The Big Three-FDR, Stalin, Churchill
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UNITED NATIONS

• JULY/1945 U.S.A. THE 1ST NATION TO JOIN.
• NATIONS PLEDGE TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND
  RESPECT PEACE AGREEMENTS.

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Photo-U.N.
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HUMAN COST OF WAR

• OVER 54 MILLION PEOPLE DIED IN WWII.
• SOVIET UNION, 20M, CHINA 13M, POLAND 6 M, GERMANY
  5M, JAPAN 2M, FRANCE 1/2 M, GB 1/2M, AND USA
  300,000.

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