WWII Rages On

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WWII Rages On
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U.S. Allies 1941

• March 1941 The Lend Lease Act FDR could lend
  or lease arms supplies to any country vital to
  the U.S.
• Hitler orders unrestricted sub warfare
• Roosevelt Churchill meet secretly issue the
  Atlantic Charter upholds free trade the right
  to choose own government
• serves as Allied peace plan at wars end

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Roosevelt ChurchillThe Atlantic Charter
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December 7, 1941Pearl Harbor

• U.S. knew attack was planned, but did not know
  where or when
• Japan sinks or damages 19 ships (8 battleships)
  in 2hrs.
• Over 2300 Americans killed, 1100 wounded
• FDR declares it A date which will live in
  infamy Congress declares war

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Japan on the Attack

• Japanese had taken French Indochina -1941 (Viet
  Nam, Cambodia, Laos)
• Planning to take over European colonies U.S.
  controlled Philippines, Guam, Wake
• FDR cut off oil shipments to Japan
• Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto designs attack on the
  U.S. fleet in Hawaii

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Japanese Victories

• Guam Wake fall quickly
• 1942 March on Manila, Philippines U.S.
  Filipino forces take up defensive on Bataan
  Peninsula. Philippines fall after 3 months.
• Seize Hong Kong, invade Malaya Singapore
  surrenders
• Conquers Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), then
  Burma
• 1mil. Sq.miles, 150mil people

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Allies Strike Back

• Doolittles raid 16 B-25 bombers commanded by
  Lt. Jimmy Doolittle bomb Tokyo other Japanese
  cities April 18, 1942
• Psych up U.S. shows Japan can be reached for
  attack by air

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Battle of the Coral SeaMay 7-8 1942

• new naval warfare Aircraft Carriers
• Allies loose more ships men but stops Japans
  southward advance

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Admiral Chester Nimitz

• Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

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Battle of Midway June 1942

• Turning Point Battle in the Pacific
• Code breakers learn the Japanese carriers led by
  Admiral Yamamoto are headed toward Midway (U.S.
  airbase)
• U.S. planes are able to find fleet and attack
• U.S. destroys 332 planes and all 4 carriers
• Yamamoto forced to withdraw

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General Douglas MacArthur

• Commander of Allied Force in the Pacific

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MacArthurs Allied Offensive

• Island-hoping by-pass Japanese strongholds
  seize islands that are not well defended closer
  to Japan
• Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. marines stop
  Japanese from building a huge airbase on the
  island August 1942 February 1943
• 6 mos. of fighting Japanese lose 24,000 of
  36,000 force Island of Death

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OPERATION OVERLORDD-DAY

• Allies began secretly building an invasion force
  in G.B.
• Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Commander
• Begins on June 6, 1944 at dawn
• Despite heavy losses, Allies hold the beachheads

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• Within a month over a million troops landed in
  Normandy
• July 25th the United States Third Army led by
  Gen. George Patton breaks out
• By Sept., Allies liberate France, Belgium, and
  Luxembourg

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