week 6

By yeezus.21

  • Benito Mussolini -italy

    -fascism was an authoritarian political movement that developed in Italy and other Europeans countries after 1919.
    - fascist program emphasized intense nationalism, productivism, anti socialism, elitism and the need for a strong leader Mussolini.
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    joseph stalin -ussr

    -Joseph Stalin was powerful communist leader in the early years of the soviet union. he was a dictator who terrorized the population and send many people to prison and labor camps.
    -one of the communist leaders greatest task was collective farming Stalin 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; us, china and soviet union along with others.
    -prime purpose: was to defeat the axis powers and created a peaceful post war world
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    axis powers

    -includes Germany japan and Italy along with others.
    -prime purpose was to establish and maintain a new order.
    -they supported each other's for territorial expansion, wanted the destruction of the soviet union and acknowledged each other's supremacy in their geographic area.

  • japan expansion

    -in September 1931 japan army moved into Manchuria after an explosion damaged a railway line near the city of mukden.
    -wanted to control china and its Asian markets.
    - they could use economic prosperity and trading notes would be a key role for the spread of their imperialism.

  • Adolph hitler - Germany

    • a dictatorship requires one person and one party to be in control of a nation. -personal freedom disappear in Nazi Germany. -Hitler asked hinderburg to grant him emergency power in view of the " communist takeover"
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    Advance technology in WW2 part c

    -torpedoes was used to destroy submarines and ships from long distance b/c bullets couldn't go far and do a lot of damaged.
    -bombing raids, were use to destroy anything in a certain area, such as factories that produce military equipment in WW2
    -wolf packs were German submarines that had mass-attack tactics against convoys. a group of ships, warships, and submarines that attack a certain target all at once.
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    war bonds

    -the sale of war bonds also reduced the amount of currency in the economy, also helping to keep inflation rates down. 85 million Americans bought bonds into the federal treasures to help with the war effort.
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    Tuskegee airmen/flying tigers

    -their man job was to provide escorts to pilots on bombing missions.
    -by 1944, the army had come under pressure to allow African Americans 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 U.S

  • george marshall

    throughout the war, general George C. Marshall (1880-19590 acted as chief of staff and the organizer of victory. he worked closely with president Roosevelt to urge military preparedness before pearl harbor, built up and supplied an army of 8 million men, and later helped to oversee the creation of the first atomic bomb.

  • M1 semi automatic rifle and radar

    M1- The design of the m1 allowed the Americans to fire more shots against their German and Japanese counterparts.
    -radar battle 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

  • Lend lease program

    purpose: Franklin Roosevelt introduced the lend lease program to congress. it was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler's advance while keeping america only indirect involved in WW2.
    result: lend lease program provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the U.S
    effect: lend lease program was the principal way to get out of the great depression.

  • civilian dispense organization

    Roosevelt set up the office of civilian dispense (OCD) to coordinate state and federal measures to protect civilians in war- related emergency. The OCD organized the U.S citizen defense corps to recruit and trained volunteered to perform.

  • rosie the riveter

    • was a cultural icon during WW2 representing the women who worked in factories many who produced munitions or war supplies.
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    multiple fronts fought by the U.S

    • the us had fought a few fronts during WW2. like the Atlantic front, the pacific front, the European front, and the home front. these front's had pushed the war in a good way for the allies because the U.S wars equipped to produce mass ugar supply for the sadias and the allied power armies, and the U.S attacking on these front helped the allied powers gain a new daily during the war, due to the U.S declaring war on Japan after pearl harbor and Germany declaring war on the U.S

  • pearl harbor

    -the Japanese royal navy launched a surprise attack against the Americans killing over 2400 Americans and militant personal.
    -destroyed 18 ships and 32 airplanes
    - Roosevelt's famous day of infamy was a response to the attack

  • executive order 9066

    was the US presidential executive order and signed during WW2 by FDR.
    -this 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 numbers of detainees were by far Japanese.
    -this order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to the interior interment camps away western coastal regions

  • Bataan death march

    • the Bataan death march happened after the u.s surrender of the Bataan peninsula it affected the war tide in favor of the axis powers. allied prisoners were forced to march 65 miles to prison Campos, where thousands died from disease, mistreatment and stavation

  • battle of midway

    • the battle of midway pushed the war tide in favor of the allied powers since it was one of the most decisive U.S. victories
    • the U.S. inflicted permanent damage on the Japanese navy. -this was the turning pain of U.S. against japan.
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    island hopping

    was effecting the tide in favor of the allied powers b/c they kept pushing Japanese forces out of the islands, through the offensive against the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon archipelago which had marked the beginning of island hopping fought between august 1942 and February 1943, eventually succeed in forcing japan to relinquish the island.

  • Bernard Montgomery

    -Bernard Montgomery was a senior British army officer who fought in both wars, during the second war he commanded the British eighth army. commanded of the 21st army group in the north western. it was essential to success on D-day in 1944 as was his role as ground commander of the Angelo-american forces under Eisenhower as supreme allied commander

  • douglas macarthur

    -Douglas MacArthur was an american general and field marshal of the Philippines army. he was chief of staff of the u.s. army during the 1930s and play prominent role in the pacific theater during WW2. he led the island hopping. commander of the allied forces in the southwest pacific

  • u.s office of war information June 1942- September 1945

    responsibilities: production 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 its own radio, programs, released its own newsreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute in same way to the war effort

  • executive order

    -the document ordered the 9066 removal of resident enemy from parts of the west.
    -after bombing pearl harbor by the Japanese in 1941 Roosevelt came under increase pressure by military and political

  • isoroku yamamato

    -Japanese Marshall admiral and commandeer in chief of the combined flect.
    played a vital roles (executed the surprise attack) in pearl harbor which made japan Victorianism

  • Chester w. Nimitz

    -was leading the U.S navy authority on submarines.
    -he was the u.s a lost surviving officer who ranked as a fleet admiral.
    -admiral Chester was appointed commander in chief of the US pacific fleet just after pearl harbor
    -he commanded U.S forces at the battle of midway
    -this battle hatted the Japanese advance in the pacific

  • Erwin Rommel

    -field marshal Erwin Rommel was one of Germans most popular generals during WW2. on "d-day" he discussed with other officer aberrant surrounding. due to his ties to the plot to over throw Hitler , he was surrendered

  • George Patton

    -led the U.S 7th army in its invasion of Sicily and swept across northern France
    -patrons forces played a icy roles undefeated the German counter attack in the battle of bilge
    -Patton died in Germany in December 1945 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

  • Dwight Eisenhower

    he was a supreme commander.
    -led the massive invasion of Nazi/-occupied Europe that began on D-day (June 6, 1944)
    -leading republicans convinced Eisenhower (then commanded forces in Europe) to run for president

  • D day

    -effected the war tide for the allies positively because the battle foreshadowed the end of Hitlers dream of Nazi domination. D day was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken. the landing included over 5000 ships , 11,000 airplanes and over 150,000 service men, by the end of the allies had reached the seine river, pairs was liberated and the Germans had been removed from northwestern France, effectively concluding the battle of Normandy.
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    liberation of concentration camps

    • push toward the victory for the allies because they were slowly starting to shut down Hitler's operation on the Nazi take over. -the soviet were the first forces to reach a concentration camp,majdanek near lubin, Poland. due to the rapid soviet advance, the Germans had burned the camp but the gas chambers were left standing. -the soviet also over ran the sites of the belzec, sobibor, Treblinka and auschwitz, the largest concentration camp.

  • korematsu VS U.S

    -1944 was a land mark united states supreme court case concerning the constitutionality of executive order 9066. which ordered Japanese Americans into internet camps during WW2 regardless of citizenship.

  • Potsdam conference

    -the big three-soviet leader 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
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    fair deal

    • the new deal was published by president harry s. Truman and democrats and was intended to pass policies related to Franklin Roosevelt new deal.
    • it was intended to set proposal of economics development and social welfare. -fair deal included measures made to help aid education tax cut for low-income. people increase public housing, and immigration deals and so on, but unfortunately most bills didn't pass

  • The U.S. and European counties

    -in the U.S the war happened after the great depression 30% unemployment was cut down to less than 5% after the employment boost due to the war. the European countries were left to rebuild. the us lend money to the countries, and Germany was the only country to fully pay it back in 1990.

  • women and minority

    -while the men went to fight in the war the women were left to work in the factories. after the war men came back to reclaim their positions at factories but the women didn't want to give them up. spuring u p the feminist movement. in the war men of color fought along side white men for the first time . when they got back from the war they were treated with the same racial sivrs sparking the civil rights movement.

  • germany expansion

    -Germany started inquiring German speaking areas lost after WW2 like Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland
    -increasingly a global political division emerged between democratic societies and totalitarian states actions at 1st nothing but when Germany did not stop an all out war occurred

  • rationings

    • rations coupons were used for essential goods like food, coffee, tires, gasoline and even clothing further the war effort in WW2.