Fighting World War II

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Fighting World War II

• Chapter 24
• Sections 2 and 3

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Americans Mobilize for War

• Atlantic Charter
• Winston Churchill (Great Britain) and FDR
  (America)
• Set foundation for the United Nations
• The GI War
• Diversity in the Armed Forces
• Navajo code talkers
• Af. Am Mex. Am, Jap.
• Women in the Armed Forces support positions
  primarily

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Fighting in North Africa and Italy

• The Battle of the Atlantic
• Convoy system
• U-boat wolf packs
• The North Africa Campaign
• German General Erwin Desert Fox Rommel
• Casablanca Conference
• The Invasion of Italy
• Patton takes Sicily
• Mussolini overthrown
• Bloody Anzio

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War in the Soviet Union

• The Germans Advance, 1941-1942
• 3.6 Million Germans advance into the Soviet Union
• Scorched earth policy
• Stalin begs for support
• The Battle of Stalingrad
• Russian army takes advantage of Russian winter
• Red Army launches an assault
• Turning point of the war in the east

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The Invasion of Western Europe

• The Air War
• The RAF bomb Germany
• Carpet bombing
• Allied bombing to soften Germany for an invasion
• Preparation for Invasion
• Buildup of troops in England
• Coast of France prepares for war
• D-Day (June 6, 1944)
• Largest landing force in history invade Normandy
• Battle of the Bulge
• American forces move into western Germany
• Nazi counterattack in Dec. 1944
• General Patton brings reinforcements and U.S.
  stops German advance
• Last chance for Germany to hold off Allies and
  defend homeland

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War Ends in Europe

• The Soviets Advance
• Move on Berlin
• U.S. moves from west
• Soviets move from east
• Eastern front
• Soviets take Berlin in April 1945
• Germany Surrenders
• Hitler commits suicide on May 1, 1945
• Germany surrenders on May 8, 1945
• V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
• The Yalta Conference
• Stalin, Churchill, and FDR (the big three)
• Split Germany
• Stalin promised to enter war in the Pacific

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The War in the Pacific

• The Japanese Advance
• Clark Field
• The Philippines Fall
• General Macarthur forced to escape
• I will return
• Bataan Death March
• The Battle of Coral Sea
• First aircraft carrier battle in history
• Prevented Japanese assault on Australia
• Allied Victories Turn the Tide
• The Battle of Midway
• Japan tries to lure rest of U.S. fleet
• Japan loses all 4 aircraft carriers
• The Battle of Guadalcanal
• 11,000 marines fight Japan in the jungles

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The War in the Pacific (cont.)

• Struggle for the Islands
• Island-Hopping
• U.S. trying to get closer to Japan
• The Philippines Campaign
• Macarthur I have returned
• Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Kamikazes
• Japan loses most of its navy
• Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• Iwo Jima
• 25,000 Japanese hold off 110,000 marines for over
  a month
• Okinawa
• Kamikaze and banzai fighters
• Bloody victory

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Winning the Pacific

• The Manhattan Project secret project to develop
  an atomic bomb
• Albert Einstein/Enrico Fermi
• Jewish physicist
• Told FDR of capabilities of nuclear weapons
• July 16, 1945, 1st nuclear bomb tested in New
  Mexico
• The Decision to Drop the Bomb
• Harry S. Truman
• Japan Surrenders
• August 6, 1945
• Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima
• August 9, 1945
• Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki
• August 15, 1945
• V-J Day (Victory in Japan Day)
• Sept. 2, 1945 official surrender

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