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World War II Overview: Timeline, Strategies, and Impact

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Discover key events, policies, battles, and aftermath of World War II, from Hitler's conquests to the use of atomic bombs and the Holocaust. Learn about mobilization efforts, labor unions, internment camps, and significant court cases.

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  1. WWII Notes Packet

  2. Hitler Crushes Europe: • In 2 months, Hitler Conquers most of Europe • Maginot Line: System of heavily armed bunkers along German/French border

  3. Battle of Britain The Blitz • Name for German’s constant bombing of London

  4. American Policies Interventionism Isolationism • Help the Allies • Stay out of Europe’s problems

  5. Selective Service Act • First peace time draft in U.S. history

  6. Lend-Lease: • President got the right to sell, lend or lease military supplies to any nation for “defense purposes”

  7. Atlantic charter • Joint public statement between Roosevelt and Churchill.

  8. Japanese Threat Increases • UN: United Nations • Alliance: Japan made an alliance with Germany and Italy

  9. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis • They promised to defend one another if attacked by the United States

  10. U.S. Responds • U.S. slowed then eventually stopped trade • Yamamoto’s Plan: He suggested a direct attack on pearl harbor

  11. Mobilizing the Home Front 4 Freedoms • 1. Freedom of Speech and Expression • 2. Freedom of Worship • 3. Freedom from Want • 4. Freedom from Fear

  12. Office of Civilian Defense • Slogan was “An hour a day for the U.S.A”

  13. War Production Board • Their job to exercise general responsibility over the nation’s economy

  14. Gross National Product • Dollar value of all goods and services produced

  15. Wartime economy • Inflation: General rise in wages and prices • Rationing: Coupons were needed to purchase many goods such as meat and butter

  16. Paying for a costly war: Income tax now paid by everyone • War Bonds: Certificates that promise the government would pay the holder the amount borrowed plus interest after the war is over.

  17. Labor Unions • Labor Unions: issued a no strike pledge • New Workers: About 6 million women joined the workforce

  18. Japanese Internment Camps • Purpose: Round up 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage and putting them into one of 10 internment camps. • Interment camps: also called relocation camps

  19. Locations • 10 total in the states of California, Iowa, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Colorado

  20. Pearl Harbor’s effects: Last straw • Camp Conditions • Food: Rationed 48 cents a day • Nisei: American born Japanese • Homes: tarpaper covered barracks

  21. Court Cases Hirabayashi vs. United States Koremats vs. United States • Rights not violated • Rights not violated

  22. Important Years & statistics • Last Camp: Closed by 1945 • Nisei: 5,766 renounced their citizenship • 1968: Government gave reparations for lost property • 1988: Govt. gave 20,000 to each surviving internee

  23. December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor attacked • Pearl Harbor was attacked • Minorities in uniform: Many African Americans joined the war effort as cooks or laborers.

  24. Germany’s policy changes towards the Soviet Union • Beginning of the War • Germany and Soviet Union sign a non aggression pact • Later during war • Pact broken: in 1942 when Germany attacks Russia. • Battle of Stalingrad: More Russians died in one battle than the number of U.S. deaths in the whole war. • 1942: Risky assault on north africa

  25. General Erwin Rommel • Nicknamed the “desert fox” • Invasion: allies invaded Europe through N. Africa then Sicily • 1943: Italy announces unconditional surrender

  26. D-Day: Codename Operation Overlord • U.S. feared triple peril: attacks from • Above (planes) • Surface • Below (subs)

  27. European Front • Sonar Technology: used sound waves to locate and sink U-boats • Battle of the Bulge: Last great German offensive… Allies won and entered Germany

  28. Holocaust: Great Destruction • Hitler’s final solution: were Death Camps • About 6 million Jewish men, women and children were massacred. • About 6 million Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals and other civilians also murdered.

  29. Roosevelt to Truman • Victory in Europe: is being led by the United States and Soviet Union • Roosevelt dies April 12, 1945: Truman becomes President

  30. Island hopping: U.S. strategy to capture key islands and build bases on them • Guadalcanal: U.S. victory paves the way for more to follow • Atomic bombs: • “little boy” dropped on Hiroshima • 2nd bomb dropped on Nagasaki