america in wwii 1941-1945 the allies abc- 1 agreement agreement with g.b. get germany first...
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AMERICA IN WWII
1941-1945
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The Allies
•ABC- 1 Agreement• Agreement with G.B.
• Get Germany first
• Foundation for American military strategy
• Held off the war in the Pacific for time being• Almost lost = Needed Time
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Shock of War
• Executive Order 9066• Japanese = 110,000
• Pacific Coast
• Sabotage
• Concentration Camps = Internment Camps = Topaz
• Korematsu v U.S.• 1988
• $20,0
• U.S. unites• Ethnic groups = no division
• 00 = Camp Survivor
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War Machine• Military Orders• $100 Billion = 1942• Snapped economy into order
•War Production Board (WPB)• Factories = Weaponry
• Bullets, aircraft, ships, tanks, machine guns
• Henry J. Kaiser• Shipbuilder = miracle man
• 14 Days
• Conserver Rubber• Japan invades Dutch East Indies = British Malaya• Speed Limit / Conserve gasoline
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War at Home• Farmers increased output
•Office of Price Administration (OPA)• Inflation = Brought prices under control
• Regulations
• Ration Books• Meat, butter, gas
•National War Labor Board (NWLB)• Imposed ceiling on wage increases• Union membership increased
•Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act = June 1943• Authorized federal government to seize and operate tied-up industries
• Criminal offense = Strike against any government operated industry
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Womanpower• Armed services• 15 million men
• 216,000 women
• Noncombat duties
• (WAAC’s) • Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps
• (WAVES)• Navy
• (SPAR’s) • Coast Guard
• (WASPS)• Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Cont.• Women• 6 million worked in the factories
• 3,000 Day Cares set up
• “Rosie the Riveter’s”
• Foreshadowed a revolution• Roles of women
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Wartime Migrations• Accelerated South’s economy• Defense Contracts
• Federally financed Industrial facilities = $6 Billion
• Great Migration• African Americans
• Tensions over employment
• Philip Randolph• “Negro March on Washington” =
1941
• Demand equal opportunities = war jobs
• Roosevelt issues executive order• Forbids discrimination in defense
industries• Fair Employment Practices
Commission (FEPC)• Monitor compliance
• Membership increased in NAACP
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) = 1942• Nonviolent
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Mexico•Bracero Program• Shorthanded = Factories/Farms• Agreement with Mexico = 1942
• Thousands of Mexican Agricultural workers = Braceros
• Harvest the fruit and grain crops of the West
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Native Americans• Native Americans• Moved from Reservations
• Cities
• 25,000 served in Armed Forces• Navajos / Comanches
•“Code Talkers”• Incomprehensible to Germans
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Holding Home Front
• War invigorated the economy• Took us out of Great Depression
• Macy’s = 1944• Anniversary of P. H. • Rang up biggest sales in history
• Americans had it good
• National debt skyrocketed• $10 Million an hour• War time bill = $330 billion
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The Pacific
• Japanese overran the Pacific capturing:• Hong Kong• Dutch East Indies• French Indochina• Guam
• Malaya• Wake Island• Burma• Solomon Islands• Thailand• Much of China
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Cont.
• Philippines• 80,000 American and Filipino troops battled the Japanese for control
•Douglas MacArthur• Commander of Allied forces
on the islands• “Backs against the wall”• Bataan• MacArthur ordered to leave
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Doolittle’s Raid
• April 18, 1942• Lieutenant Colonel James
Doolittle• Led 16 bombers
• Bombed Tokyo• Surprise attack
• All 16 aircraft were lost • 11 crewmen were killed
/captured• The crews of 14 - in their
entirety returned
• Lifted spirits
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Midway• Strategic Island north of Hawaii
• June 3, 1942• Scout planes found Japanese fleet = broke the code• Planes still on decks of carriers
• Japanese lost • 4 aircraft carriers• 1 cruiser • 250 planes
• “Avenged Pearl Harbor”
• Turning point• Began “island hopping”
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Japanese Defense
•Kamikaze• Suicide-plane attacks• Crashed bomb-laded planes into Allied ships
• Philippines• 424 Kamikaze pilots • 16 ships sunk• 80 damaged
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Iwo Jima• Critical to the U.S. as a base• Heavily loaded bombers might
reach Japan• 25 Day assault• Feb – March 1945
• Most heavily defended spot• 20,000 Japanese troops• Tunnels/Caves
• 4,000 marines died taking island
• Only 200 Japanese survived
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Okinawa
• April 1945• U.S. Marines invaded
Okinawa
• Japanese unleashed 1,900+ Kamikaze attacks• Sinking 30 ships• Damaging 300+
• Fighting ended on June 21, 1945• 50,000 American casualties• 110,000 Japanese casualties
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Halting Hitler
•“Wolf Packs”• 1942• 500 merchant ships sunk• 111 in June
• Radar• Allies gain upper hand = 1943
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Stalingrad• August 1942• Defend at all costs• Oil Fields
• Industrial Center
• Conquering house by house
• Winter• Soviets roll in fresh tanks• Surround Germans = Cut off
supplies
• Germans surrender • Jan. 31, 1943• Huge Death Tolls on both
sides
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North Africa
• Assault on French-held North Africa• November 1942
•Dwight D. Eisenhower• Joint allied operation
• 400,000 men
• 850 ships
• German-Italians were trapped in Tunisia
• Surrendered in May 1943
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Italy
• January 1943• Churchill/ FDR = Casablanca Conference
• Morocco (Africa)
• Step up Pacific War• Invade Sicily = Pressure on Italy
• “Unconditional Surrender”• Destroy governments
• Sicily falls August 1943• Mussolini kicked out
• Killed
• Italy surrendered unconditionally = Sept 1943
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D-Day
• Big 3 meet• Stalin, Churchill, FDR• Tehran = Iran• Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 1943• Cross Channel invasion
• June 6, 1944
• Dwight D. Eisenhower• Operation Overlord
• Normandy = Northern France• Omaha Beach
• Air / Land bombardment• 4,600 Vessels
• Force of 3 million
• 7 days of fighting• 80 miles strip of land
• 567,000 tons of supplies
• July 25
• George S. Patton = “Blood-n-Guts”• Gap in German Lines
• August 23 • Reached Seine River• 2 days later France liberated
• Sept. 1944• France, Belgium, Luxemburg freed
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Battle of the Bulge• December 16, 1944• Belgium• Hitler wanted to split forces
• Last big push
• G.B. / American
• Captured 120 POW’s• Moved into large field =
mowed over
• Raged for 1 month
• Pushed Germans back• Huge loses
• 120,000
• 1,600 planes
• 600 tanks
• Germany could not recover
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Election 0f 1944• Republicans = Thomas E. Dewey• Governor of New York• New Dealism / Change
• Democrats = FDR• Vice President = Truman• 4 Terms? / War
• FDR wins 432 to 99
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Final Solution• 1939• ¼ million Jews remained in Germany
•Final Solution• Genocide• The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population• Silenced political opposition• Targeted other groups• Gypsies• Freemasons – supporters of Jewish community• Jehovah’s Witnesses – Refused to join the army or salute Hitler• Sick / Weak / Handicapped
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Final Stage• Began in Poland• Nazi Death Squads
• “Security Squadrons” (SS)• Shot on the spot
•Ghettos• Segregated Jewish areas
• Sealed off with barbed wire / stone walls
• Bodies pilled up in the streets• Factories built along ghettos
• Put to work
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Concentration Camps
• Dragged from homes• Herded onto trains / trucks
• Shipped to concentration camps
• Camps turned over to the SS• Hunger, Humiliation, and work = Death
• Crude barracks – Thousand people in each
• Rats / Fleas
• Worked from Dawn to Dusk / 7 days
• Too weak = killed
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Final Stage
•Early 1942• Phase of Mass murder• Poison Gas
• Built 6 death camps in Poland• Huge gas chambers• 12,000 killed each day
•Auschwitz• Largest of the death
camps
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Cont.•Bodies buried in huge pits• Gave off a horrible smell
•Tried to cover up evidence• Crematoriums
•Used as experiments• Deadly germs• Study effects of disease
• Test methods of sterilization• Improve master race
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Surrender• Soviets Reach Berlin April 1945• First to come upon camps
• FDR = Dies April 12, 1945• Truman now President
• Hitler commits suicide = April 30, 1945
• Germany surrenders• May 8, 1945
•V-E Day = Victory in Europe
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Atomic Bomb
• Most ambitious enterprise in history• Best-kept secret• Manhattan Project
• 600,000 Americans were involved in the project• Albert Einstein
• Alamogordo, New Mexico• July 16, 1945• Blinding Flash• 180 miles away• Mushroom Cloud
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Warning
• Potsdam Conference• Berlin = July 1945
• 17 day parley
• Stalin, Truman, Clement
• Stern ultimatum to Japan• Leaflets
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Truman
• July 25, 1945• Truman ordered dropping for 2 atomic bombs
• U.S. warned Japan that it faced “prompt and utter destruction” unless it surrendered at once
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki• August 6, 1945• B-29 Bomber• Atomic Bomb code name --- Little boy• Hiroshima
• Japanese military center• 43 seconds = 180,000
• Japan hesitant to surrender
• August 9, 1945• 2nd Bomber ---- code name --- Fat Man• Nagasaki
• Leveled half the city• 80,000
• 200,000+ people died as a result• Injuries, radiation
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Surrender
• September 2, 1945• Emperor Hirohito horrified by the destruction
• Told Japan’s leaders to draw up papers to end the war
• Ceremonies took place on the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay
•V-J Day = Victory in Japan
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Casualties
• USSR
• Military Deaths = 10,000,000 • Civilian Deaths = 17,000,000• Cost = $192 Billion
• U.K.
• Military Deaths = 300,000• Civilian Deaths = 60,600• Cost = $120 Billion
• U.S.
• Military Deaths = 405,399• Civilian Deaths = 6• Cost = $316 Billion
• France• Military Deaths = 250,000• Civilian Deaths = 350,000
• Germany
• Military Deaths = 3,500,000• Civilian Deaths = 1,600,000• Cost = $272 Billion
• Italy
• Military Deaths = 242,000• Civilian Deaths = 60,000• Cost = $94 Billion
• Japan
• Military Deaths = 2,000,000• Civilian Deaths = 650,000
• China• Military Deaths = 2,000,000• Civilian Deaths = 7,750,000