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Benito Mussolini-Italy
-Faust was an authoritarian political movement that developed in Italy and other European countries after 1919
-Fascist program emphasized intense nationalism productivity,anti socialism,elitism and that held for a strong leader mussolini -
Stain-USSR
-Joseph stain was a powerful communist leader in the early years of the soviet unions . He was a dictator who terrorized the population and sent many people to prison and labor camps .
-One of the communist leaders greatest task was collectivized farming , stain created a state-owned farms
-while stain was the leader he steadily increased his power, many of his enemies were shot or sent to Siberia. -
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Allied powers
-Great Britain vs China and Soviet Union along with others.
- prime purpose was to defeat the axis powers and create the peacefully post of world war. -
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Axis powers
-includes; German , Japan ,and Italy along with others
-prime purpose was to establish and maintain a new order
-They supported each other's goals for territorial expansion, wanted the destruction of Soviet Union and acknowledged each other's supremacy in their geographic area. -
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Tuskegee airmen / flying tigers
-Their main job was to provide escorts for pilots on Bombing missions
- by 1944, the army had come under pressure to allow African American to engage in combat on the ground and also formed an African-American infantry division
-flying tigers were recruited to send supplies and to engage in combat with Japanese pilots -flying tigers were all volunteered flying pilots from the US. -
Germany expansion
-Germany started acquiring German speaking areas lost after world war 1 like Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,and Poland .
-increasingly a global political division emerged between Democratic societies and totalitarian states (Germany) actions , at first nothing went Germany did not stop an all out war occurred. -
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Volunteerism in ww2 (red cross)
At home :
-began blood donor in america to produce lifesaving plasma for the armed forces ,served in hospitals,produced emergency supplies, collected scrap,ran victory gardens,and maintained training programs.
Overseas:
-Became the chief providers of relief -supplies in Europe, served as field directors ,provided support for troops ,operated clubs,and were attached to military hospitals. -
M1 semi automatic rifle and radars
M1- the design of the M1 allowed the Americans to fire ore shots against their German and Japanese counterpar
Radars- battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships,or submarines , the radar helped see hundreds of miles away even at night. -
civilian dispense organization
-roosevelt set up the office of civilian dispense (OCD) to coordinate state and federal measures to protect civilians in was related agencies
-The OCD organized the U.S. citizen defence corps to recruit and trained volunteered to perform essential tasks. -
lend lease program
-Gave the president the authority to sell lease lend, or otherwise disposed of any defence article to any nation whose defence be considered critical to that of the US
-Neutrality by claiming that loans were made in the interests of national defense, goods were not destroyed or lost in battle were to be returned or paid for .
-It allowed the US to provide it's allies with aid in the form of tanks,ammunition, and construction supplies. -
Bernard montgomery
-was a s senior British army officer who fought in both wars
- During the second war he committed the British eight army
- committed on the 21st army group for the rest of the campaign.
-in the nort western Europe essential to success on D-day in 1944-as was his role of grand commander of the Anglo American forces under Eisenhower as asupreme allied commander -
executive order 9066
-was a US presidential executive order and signed by 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 and German Americans the largest number of detainees were by far Japanese
- This order permitted military commander to require Japanese Americans to relocate to the interior inter!ant camps away western coastal regions. -
Douglas Macarthur
-Was an American five star general and field marshal of the Philippine army . He was a chief of staff on the U.S army During the 1930's and during WW2 led the island hopping commander of the allied forces in the southwest Pacific -
George patton
-led the U.S 7th army in the invasion of Sicily and swept across northern France
- Patton forces played an icy role under eating the German counter attack in the battle of bulge
- Patton died in Germany in December 1945 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident -
Dwight Eisenhower
-supreme commander
- led the massive invasion of nazi/occupied Europethat began on D-day (June 6,1944)
-Leading Republicans convinced Eisenhower (the commanded forces in Europe ) to run for president . -
George .C.Marshall
Through out the war George c. Marshall (1880-1959)acted as chief of staff and the organizer of victory .He worked with President Roosevelt to urge military Preparedness before Pearl harbor,uilt up and supplied an army of 8million men ,and later helped to oversea the creation of the first atomic bomb. -
Omar bradley
-was a senior officer of the U.S army
-He was in service in North America and western Europe during world war 2
- He then became general of the first American army to land on France -
Koremastsu vs US
1944 was a landmark united States supreme Court case concerning the Constitutionality of executive orders 9066 ,which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during WW2 regardless of citizenship -
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Fair deal
-The new deal was published by president Harry S. Truman and Democrats and was intended to pass policies revoked to Franklin Roosevelt's new deal .
-It was intended to see proposals of economic development and social welfare.
- Fair deal included measures to help aid education fax cut for law income ,people increased public housing and immigration deals and so on , but unfortunately most bills didn't pause. -
postdam conference
-The big three Soviet leaders; Joseph Stalin, British prime minister Winston Churchill replaced on 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 -
Adolph Hitler -Germany
-A dictatorship requires one person and one party to be in control of a nation and a climate of fear.
-Personal freedom dissapeared in Nazi Germany
-Hitler asked Hindenburg to grant him everyone's power in view of the "communist takeover" -
US office of war information
Responsibilities-pruduction of pro allied ,anti axis propaganda,such as movies and posters to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war -effort.
Activities-The OWI produced it's own radio,programs,released it's own newsreels and required that all movies produced during the war contributed in some way to the war -effort