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FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1933. He had polio but that did not stop him from digging the U.S out of the Great Depression with his New Deal plan. He died in 1944 during his term. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler is the most well-known dictator of all time. After WW1, Germany was in a slump and he worked to get out of that slump by blaming many things on Jews. He systematically killed millions of Jewish people over the span of WW2 with gas chambers and burning their bodies. Hitler created the well-known genocide, the Holocaust. -
US Neutrality
America saw the war as a European war and didn't want to get "involved". Made neutrality laws that they could sell arms to nations at war as long as they paid in cash and got the supplies themselves. -
Manhattan Project
World-class scientists like Albert Einstein that fled to the US from Europe during the war told FDR that other countries were making an atomic bomb. Those same scientists began making atomic bombs for the US arsenal. -
Conservation/Rationing/Factory Production
Americans conserved supplies such as rubber and gas at home by carpooling and riding bikes, so that American soldiers could use them in their fights. Rationing stamps allowed people to receive scarce food items, such as meet, coffee, or butter. Factory Production is when factories that made cars started making tanks instead. -
Allied Powers
The allied powers consisted of Great Britain, France, Soviet Union (after Germany invaded), the U.S, and China -
Axis Powers
The axis powers consisted of Germany, Italy, Japan. -
African-American Discrimination
A. Philip Randolph planned a march on Washington against discrimination against African-Americans in the workplace. He wanted to march specifically over racial discrimination in the military and other expanding war industries. -
Japanese Embargo
US place an embargo on Japan for airplane parts and aviation fuel. Japanese were angered by this and pursuited Pearl Harbor. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese were angered because of the embargo and sent their navy to surprise attack on an American Naval and Air base. This attack killed around 2400 Americans and damaged 19 ships and around 300 aircrafts. Caused America to declare war. -
Internment Camps
Forced relocation of the Japanese Americans during WW2 because of Pearl Harbor and other Japanese acts. Moved the Japanese Americans to the western coast. -
Battle of Midway/ Island Hopping
Turning point in the Pacific Theater of WW2. U.S beat Japanese military. Japan wasn't able to recover. Island Hopping was used for U.S military to get closer to Japan. -
Battle Of Midway
Turning point of the war. U.S was trying to get closer to Japan and to do so they island hopped from Hawai'i to Okinawa. At the Battle of Midway, the U.S won and got a huge moral boost and the Japanese couldn't recover. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was created to push women into the workplace after Pearl Harbor. They wanted women to work so that the men at war would have clothes, food, and military supplies to be able to fight. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Pre-president years, Dwight Eisenhower was an U.S military general. He took full blame for the failure of D-Day. -
D-day
D-day was an allied invasion on Normandy, France. It was not successful. It was the largest seaborne invasion to date. -
Harry Truman
He was FDR's vice president. After FDR's death, he assumed the position of President in 1945. He ordered the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Battle of Berlin
Soviet forces captured Vienna, Austria and Joseph Stalin order 20 armies, 8500 aircraft, and 6300 tanks to march onward to Berlin. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
President Truman had to decide whether or not he wanted to save millions of American lives by sending the atomic bombs over Japan, or invading Japan and losing many soldier lives. He decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan. Killed 80,000 people. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
President Truman had to decide whether or not he wanted to save millions of American lives by sending the atomic bombs over Japan, or invading Japan and losing many soldier lives. He decided to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki, Japan. Killed 40,000 people. -
Japanese Surrender
After President Truman ordered the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the devastation amongst Japanese citizens was at large. The Japanese emperor surrendered on August 15, 1945 but formally surrendered on September 2nd, 1945.
