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European Theater
Germany was not able to build their own army. Hitler took Austria and Czechoslovakia without the world stepping in, Europe didn’t do anything afraid that it will be another WWI. Hitler signed an agreement saying he will not go after other lands like he did. After this in 1939 Hitler attacked Poland, England and France then declared war. German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Germany and Russia split up Poland, Germany invaded first Russia later met the retreating Polish army. -
Euthanasia Program
Hitler would tell parents who child under the age of 5 that have a disability that he will take them and help them, they would agree to this. When he was really just going to kill them. It was so successful he began to try it on elders and teens. The idea behind it was to cleanse the race in order to create a productive society. It was estimated that about 200,000 people died in this program. In 1941 they began sending these people to Concentration Camps in Poland. -
Hitler Invades Russia
1941 1942- It took longer than was expected, it turned into winter and the Nazis were not prepared for the weather. In Moscow civilians helped, they dug miles of traps, they were also willing to fight. 85,000 Germans died in 6 weeks. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m in Hawaii hundred of Japanese fighter planes came into Pearl Harbor and began attacking the US. Japan needed to distract the US so that they could seize rubber plantations in French Indochina and oil fields in the Dutch Indies, Japan wanted victory over China. They killed 2403 Americans, destroyed 180 US aircraft, and 18 US naval vessels. FDR had gave a speech on Japan he included that it was a planned attack, the date will remain in infamy, mus -
Pacific Theater
Pacific Theater- 1941- 1945- The Pacific Theater began on Pearl Harbor, and ended when Hirohito surrendered. Japan had “forced” the US to enter the war, Japan ended up surrendering everything and lost. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066- February 19 1942- America had feared of Japanese Americans would be loyal to their home country.This order will allow the military to go into people's homes and decide if they are in the group that is to go to the camps, they will be giving food and other supplies need to live. FDR said he was allowed to do this since he was the president. He first he order the secretary of state to make the camps, round the people up into the camps, making sure all of them gets there. The -
Bataan Death March
April, 9 1942- The Bataan Death March started after the US surrenders of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon, about 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camps. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Johnson was a World War I veteran, he had served with U.S. forces in France, he wanted to help win WWII. In February 1942, after formulating his idea, Johnston traveled south to Camp Elliott near San Diego, where he tried to convince Lieutenant Colonel James E. Jones, that the Navajo code could not be broken by the enemy. The Marines used the Navajo Code Talkers to create an unbreakable code using their native language, they transferred these messages over military te -
Women in War
During WWII women made up one third of all factory workers, they made 60% of what a man made, the military accepted women for noncombat assignments. More than 350,000 women served in the U.S. Armed Forces some at home some aboard. Between 1940 and 1945 women percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, by 1945 one out of every four married women worked outside the house. Rosie the Riveter helped assure that the Allies would have the war mat -
African Americans
African Americans were hired to do unskilled work at home and in the military. Double V Campaign- Victory overseas and victory over discrimination at home. Tuskegee Flyers was the first all black WWII fighter pilots, flew more than 15,000 sorties between May 1943 and June 1945. In 1941 fewer than 4,000 African Americans were serving in the military and only twelve African Americans had become officers. By 1945 more African American troops had been put into positions as i -
War Production Board
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Wartime Production Board on January 16, 1942, with the idea was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. In 1942-45, the WPB supervised the production of $183 billion worth of weapons and supplies. American companies starting making war good. Organizes were held for national drives for scrap metal, paper, cooking fat, cloth, and anything that could make war goods. -
Wartime Consumer
During WWII people were working jobs to help win the war, they had nothing to buy. Americans used their money to buy defence bonds these were issued by the US government, after Pearl Harbor were called War Bonds, 134 million Americans were asked to purchase bonds. On December 27 1941 FDR established the Office of Price Administration it controlled; prices and rationed goods, people needed ‘coupons’ to buy coffee, meat, sugar, leather, clothes. -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway- June 3, 1942 – June 7, 1942- The Battle of Midway was the turning point in the Pacific War, more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers died, and 4 aircraft ships sank and 322 planes were shot down. It was 6 months after Pearl Harbor the US defeated Japan in a great battle in WWII. The victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Battle of Stalingrad Ended
Germany’s second attempt to take Russia, they were trapped by winter. Germany was undersupplied, length of time was too long, and civilians were willing to fight. Hitler was obsessed with Russia, this allowed America to invade with less resistance. Hitler’s goal was to kill as many Russians as possible, they ended up killing 20 million Russians. Russia was a main reason why Germany lost the war. -
Death Marches
1944- The began evacuating all Concentration Camps or Death Camps in the fall of 1944. Germany wanted to ensure no evidence of any crimes will be able to prove; the killing of any murders, war crimes, possible bargaining tools. They continued up until Germany surrendered, it’s estimated that anywhere between 250,000 to 375,000 people died in these marches. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944- D-Day also known as Operation Overlord, was the invasion of Germany occupied beaches of Normandy. Before D-Day the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. It is the largest sea, land and air overtake ever. Allied forces ended up winning. D-Day lasted from June 1944 till August 1944, some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches. -
Korematsu v US
A man that’s American, that has lived here all his life was married to a American, refused to leave his house in San Leandro, California. He felt that this was violating his rights and in 1944 he appeared in the Supreme Court with his case, the court accepted the US Military request that Japanese even if born American are to go to these camps. The military’s argument was yes they were born in America but if a war was to go down then they would be loyal to Japan. The court state that the securit -
The Battle of the Bulge
December 16, 1944- January 25 1945- In December 1944 Hitler was trying to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Germans tried to take Antwerp, a Belgian city. They were able to misled America, the battle lasted over a month. America won or tied the war, ended up losing 81,000 soldiers. -
Yalta Conference
February 4-11 1945- Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed to split Germany into 4 parts to create a new free and peaceful government. Stalin broke this promise and forced Soviet rule. -
Iwo Jima
February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945- Iwo Jima is a small island off of Japan, by the time America could secure the island 200,000 Japanese died and 7,000 Americans. America needed this as a base near Japan, they were looking for a place where they could land after battles in Japan so don’t have to go all the way back to the US. US Marines landed on Iwo Jima on February 1945. -
Tokyo Air Raids
Starting in March 1945 America’s Air Force crews met on the Mariana Islands of Tinian and Saipan for a military briefing. They were planning a low airstrike bombing attack on Tokyo that would happen that evening. Three hundred and thirty-four bombers, flying at a mere 500 feet, dropped their loads, masses of panicked and terrified Japanese civilians scrambled to escape the inferno, most unsuccessfully. -
Okinawa
April 1—June 22, 1945- Okinawa was the longest lasting battle of World War II, involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army. Both commanding officers for the Japanese and American died. -
Concentration Camps End
Concentration Camps regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The first concentration camps were established in January 1933 after Hitler as chancellor. By the time Germany invaded Poland there were 6 concentration camps in Germany. They first started of as labor camps then became death camps. It’s estimated 11 million died in concentration camps but no way to know for sure. Auschwitz was the largest Concentration Camp with alone, more than 2 million people were murdered -
FDR Death
April, 12 1945- On April 12, 1945 dies, after four terms in office, he died in Warm Spring Georgia. Elizabeth Shoumatoff was painting Roosevelt’s portlet, he began having a bad in the back of his neck and fainted. The doctor tried to help him, they called his family and at 3:30 p.m he was pronounced dead. -
Potsdam Declaration
July 26, 1945- The Potsdam Declaration is when Truman, Churchill, and Stalin all agreed to only accept a unconsidered surrender from Japanese. They would have to completely give up their military, and they will have a peaceful government. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima also known as little Little Boy was the first bombing that America had dropped on Japan. 80,000 instantly died, 60,000 died within the year 60,000 died throughout the year, people died through the years since there was a disease that the bomb caused. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki which was also called Fat Boy was dropped in Japan 3 days after the one on Hiroshima. Anywhere from 60 to 80 thousand died. -
End of War
August 15, 1945- Hirohito surrenders war is over
