The U.S. in World War II

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The U.S. in World War II
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• Section 1 Mobilizing for Defense
• Section 2 The War for Europe and North Africa
• Section 3 The War in the Pacific
• Section 4 The Home Front

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Effect of World War II on U.S.

• New Technology
• New Prosperity
• New Position of Power in the World

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Theatres of War

• Eastern Europe
• Western Europe
• North Africa / Italy
• Far East / Pacific

• Soviets v. Germany
• Allies v. Germany
• Allies v. Germany / Italy
• Allies v. Japan

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Which Area to Concentrate on First??

• Germany First
• Defeat of Japan will not end the war, but defeat
  of Germany will leave Japan all alone
• Closer cultural ties with countries occupied by
  Germany
• Germany most direct threat to the Western
  Hemisphere, European Trade, the Atlantic Ocean,
  and Latin America
• Fear Germany might develop weapons powerful
  enough to take over the world. (Nuclear and
  Rockets)
• Germany might defeat Soviet Union and eliminate
  the two front war that is an allied advantage.

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Battle of the Atlantic

• Hitlers U-boats cause huge losses to American
  ships that are lifeline to Britain
• Convoy System escorted by destroyers
• Use of Sonar Sound Navigation Ranging Apparatus
• Use of Radar Radio Detecting and Ranging
  Equipment
• Ariel surveillance
• Crash Shipbuilding Program
• Mid-1943 the tide turns

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Eastern Front

• Siege and Battle of Stalingrad
• August 1942 to Feb. 1943
• Germans lost 150,000 and 91,000 were captured
• Soviets lost 1,100,000 defending the city
• Turning point of war
• Hitler wouldnt allow a retreat

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Opening A Western Front

• Soviets pressure British and U.S. to open a
  second front
• Looked at a cross channel invasion
• British and U.S. decide they are not ready for
  this and opt to invade North Africa

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North Africa

• Operation Torch
• Nov. 8, 1942
• 1st major Allied Amphibious operation in European
  Theatre of North Africa
• Dwight D. Eisenhower commander
• Landings in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers (see
  map page 572)

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General Erwin Rommel

• Desert Fox
• Commander of German Afrika Korps
• German forces surrender in May 1943
• Forced to take poison after he is implicated in
  the plot to kill Hitler

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Casablanca Conference

• January 1943
• Churchill and Roosevelt
• Agree to accept only Unconditional Surrender of
  Axis Powers
• Look at amassing large army to invade France
  across the English Channel
• Agree to the invasion of Italy first

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Italian Campaign

• Invasion of Sicily - Operation Husky
• July 1943
• Mussolini forced to resign
• Invasion of Italian Peninsula
• Sept. 1943
• Germans plan to hold Italy
• Bloody Anzio
• 4 months
• 25,000 Allied Causalities
• 30,000 Axis Causalities

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Mussolinis Fate

• Mussolini rescued by the Germans and installed as
  a puppet dictator in German controlled Italy
• Mussolini discovered by Italian Partisans in
  April, 1945, as he attempted to sneak across the
  Austrian border with his mistress
• Mussolini and his mistress were killed and hung
  upside down in a plaza in Milan

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