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Great Depression
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Japanese Atrocities
The Japanese ran myriad internment camps,that included: starvation, forced labor, and exposure to disease and extreme weather, throughout east Asia
Unit 731 was a top-secret jap. military unit that resulted in 300,000 deaths
began 1942 in the Philippines; ordered 76000 POWS to march 70 miles(Bataan death march); in 1945, military leaders order Japs to leave Manila, Philippines and surrendering it to the allies
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The start of WWII
1st September, 1939, German forces stormed the Polish frontier A total of 1.25 million Germans soldiers swept into Poland World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939, when the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany. It involved many of the world's countries. -
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Final Solution
Basically the holocaust happened and death camps were developed
The biggest concentration camp was in Auschwitz-Birkenau
From 1942-45, jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe
more than 2 million people were murder in Auschwitz alone
Had death marches in 1944 following
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Lend Lease Act
It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money
By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation other countries, the act permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle.
People rationed their supplies so they can send more out to the men
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes descended on the base; damaged nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack; Caused President Franklin D. Roosevelt to ask Congress to declare war on Japan.
Japanese goals from this were to: destroy important fleets
buy time to increase naval strength
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Doolittle's Raid
16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and commanded by Lt. Col. James D., attack the Japanese mainland
Did little damage
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Battle of the Coral Sea
Marked the first air-sea battle in history
The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. When the Japanese landed in the area, they came under attack from the aircraft carrier planes of the American task force commanded by Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher.
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Midway Battle
six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan
the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position.
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Battle of Gaudalcanal
Aug 7, in the Allies’ first major offensive in the Pacific, 6,000 U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and seized the airfield, surprising the island’s 2,000 Japanese defenders.
By October Japs. were unable to overwhelm the Americans’ defensive perimeter and retake the airfield
By February 1943 the Japanese were forced to evacuate 12,000 of their remaining troops from Guadalcanal
Various naval battles cost each side 24 warships
Japanese lost a total of 24,000 men
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Operation Fortitude
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Rosie the Riveter
The Saturday Evening Post published a cover image by the artist Norman Rockwell, portraying Rosie with a flag in the background and a copy of Adolf Hitler’s racist tract “Mein Kampf” under her feet.
More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in 1943, making up 65 percent of the industry’s total workforce -
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Invasion of Sicily
The Allies decided to move against Italy, hoping an Allied invasion would remove that fascist regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the near future.
The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily. After 38 days of fighting, the U.S. and Great Britain successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland. -
D-Day
Operation Overload was the plan of the allied nations to invade France
Allied troops invade German-occupied France and face near certain death on the beaches of Normandy
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Battle of the Bulge
The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, an attempt to push the allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium
Was the largest fought on the Western font
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battle of Iwo Jima
An epic military campaign between U.S. Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan
It’s believed that all but 200 or so of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, as were almost 7,000 Marines.
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Battle of Okinawa
The last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest.
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Victory in Europe Day
WWII ended with the unconditional surrender of the axis powers
Germany's surrender was accepted by the allies
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Manhattan project/dropping A-Bomb
an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over Hiroshima (the little boy).(Enola Gay)
It iped out 90% of the city and imediately killed 80,000 people(others died of radiation)
3 days later, another A-Bomb (fat man) was dropped on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people -
Victory in Japan Day
japan surrenders to the allies on august 15 and agreed in principle to unconditional surrender
This ended WWII throughout the rest of the world on sept.2
