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Axis Powers
-included Germany, Japan, and Italy along w/ a few others
-prime purpose was to establish and maintain a new order.
-they supported each other's goal for territorial expansion, wanted the destruction of Soviet Union & acknowledge each other's supremacy in their receptive geographic area -
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Allied Powers
-includes Great Britain, U.S, China, and Soviet Union along w/ others
-prime purpose was to defeat the Axis Powers and create a peaceful post-war world -
Japan Expansion
-In September 1931 Japan army moved into Manchuria after an expansion damaged a railway line near the city of Mukden
-wanted to control China & its Asian markets
-they could use for economic prosperity & trading routes would be a key role for the spread of their imperialism -
Germany Expansion
-Germany started acquiring German speaking areas lost after WW1 like Sudetenland(a section of France), Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland
-Increasingly a global political division emerged between democratic societies (US & Britain) and totalitarian states (Germany) actions @1st nothing but when Germany did not stop an all out war occurred -
M1 Semi Automatic rifle & radar
M1-the design of the M1 allowed the Americans to five more shots against their German & Japanese counterparts
Radar-battle were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or subs. the radar helped see hundreds of miles away, even at night -
Executive Order 9066
-was a US presidential executive order & signed during WW2 by FDR
-the document ordered the removal of resident enemy allies from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas
-9066 affected Italian & German Americans the largest numbers of detainees were far Japanese
-This order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to the interior interment camps away western coastal regions -
Bataan Death March
the Bataan death march happened after the US surrender of the Bataan peninsula it affected the war tide in favor of the axis powers. allied -
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US Office of War Information
responsibilities -production of pro-allied, anti axis propaganda, such as movies and posters, to make citizens aware of how they could help in war effort activities -the OWI produced its own radio, programs, released its own newsreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute in some way to the war effort -
Bernard Montgomery
-was a senior British army officer who fought in both wars during the second war he commanded the British eighth army, commander of the 21st army group for the rest of the campaign in the northwestern Europe -
Douglas MacArthur
-was an american five-star general and field Marshall of the Philippe army. he was chief of staff of the US army during the 1930's and WW2
-led island hopping
-commander of the allied forces in the southwest pacific -
George Patton
-led the US 7th army in its invasion of Sicily and swept across northern France
-Patton's forces played a key role in defeating the German counterattack in the battle of bulge
-Patton died in Germany in December 1945 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident -
Omar Bradley
-was a high -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-he was a supreme commander of allied forces
-led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-day (June 6, 1944)
-leading republicans convince Eisenhower to run for president -
Potsdam Conference
-the big three- soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British prime minister Winston Churchill July 26 by prime minister Clement Attlee
-Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta to plan the reorganization of Europe at the end of the war agreed on the formation United Nations -
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Fair Deal
-the new deal was published by president Harry S. Truman and democrats & was i -
Women and Minority
-while the men went to fight in the war the women were left to work in the factories. After the war men came back to reclaim their positions at factories but the women didn't want to give them up. Spurring up the feminist movement. In war men of color fought along side white men for the first. When they got back from the war they were treated with the same racial siurs sparking the civil rights movement. -
The US & European Countries
-In the US the war happened after the GD 30% unemployment was cut down to less than 5% after the employment boost due to the war. The European countries were left to rebuild. The US lended money to the countries, and Germany was the only one to fully pay it back in 1990 -
Civilian Defense Organization
Roosevelt set up the office of civilian defense to coordinate state and federal measures to project civilians in war related emergencies. The OCD organized the US citizens defense corps to recruit and train volunteers to perform essential task