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benito mussolini
-in italy, benito mussolini developed a new type of political party and seized power
-by 1921,mussolini established the fasast party.
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event
-in ussr, joseph stalin whose cast name means "man of steel" took control of the country.
-stalin focused on creating a model communist state he made both aoricultural and industrial growth
-in 1939 stalin had family established a totalitorian gov. that tried to exert complete control over citizens -
adolph hitler
-in germany , adolph hitler had followed a path to power similar to mussolinis
-in 1919, he joined a struggling group called the nazi party.
-hitler quickly became the party leader he established a dictorship as brutal or worst than stalins
-he was determind achieve german domination of europe -
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volunteerism of ww2
-domestic . homefront both girls bboys from white & africa americans schools participated.
-physical fitness program enroll in war-effort classes, volunteer one extracurricular war time activity
-war front effort-was to pre high school students to aid in the war effort on the homefront & fronties -
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advance tecnology in ww2 part-c
-torpedoes was used to destroy submarines & ships from long distance , b/c bullets couldn't go far & do a lot of damaged
-bombing raids , were used to destroy anything in a certain area, such as factories that produce military equipment in ww2
-wolf paks were german submarines that had mass-attack tacties against convoys a group of ships , warships & submarines that attack a certain target all at once -
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axis
-germany, italy and japan led a group of nations called the axis
-1930s the nazi , leader was ahilter and try to take revang to the contries that defeated germany in ww1 + wanted world domination. -1930s japan invaded manchuria because it had alot of raw materials
-they want their owncountries to grow + others to become weaker -
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japan's war expansion
-japan wished to replace europen imperialism in asia with the imperialismof an asia power
-place-p dates japan invaded.
m-manchuria-1937
-southern indochina-1941
-roosevelt froze japanese assers in the u.s.a by cutting or all trade with japan -
rationing
-rationing is the controlled distribution of scare resources & goods.
-rationing items were gasoline,tires,meat,butter & jellies.
-people had to use "rationing goods" which were issued to each family based on his size. -
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allied
-great britian , united states of america, soviet union,france led a group of nations called the allied.
-in 1941 congress voted that a state of ever existed between usa & japan
-war caused by german expansionism england& france were unprepared for war
-when hilter invaded poland ww2 began -
civilian defence organization
-roosevelt set up the office of civilization defense (ocd) to cardinate state and federal measures to protect civilians in war related emergency. the ocd organized the u.s citizens defense corps to recruit and train volunteers to reform essential tasks -
world bonds
-way to remove money from circulation as well as reduce inflation.
-people would buy bonds & the gov.promised to return to them w/ interest afther 10 yr or more.
-gov needs the $ to pay 4 war equipment. -
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code talkers
navajo code talkers played a key role in the pacific campain. the american millitary needed an undoc ipherable code that could not be broken by the landphase the navajo language is unwritten and extremely complex american forces could trasmit messages by telephone and radio in a code that the japanese were unable to break. -
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wacs
women joined the new women's army corps (wacs) afther basic training most of these women took electrical jobs in the military. women replaced jobs farmerly held by men, such as shipbuilding and aircraft production. the idea was to have women fill jobs held by men to send more men to war. between 1941-1945 more than 6.5 mil. women entered the work force. -
pearl harbor
dec 7, 1941 , two waves of japanese attack sank or severy damagedd 18 u.s ship on the air fields , more than 260 air planes were damaged or destroyed while the attack killed or injured almost 6,000 americans .FDR said-yesterday a date which will live infamy the united states
-of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air force of the empire of japan -
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u.s office of war information
responsibilities- control the content and imagine of war massage and make cents aware of how they could help in the war-effort.
activities- produced radio programs, news rules, asked citizens to contribute time + money create products, consene resources, drate, and stirup distrust to lower enemy and population morals to promote surrender -
radar & m-1 semi-automatic rifle
used to create an electronic map of all objects in all directions and a great distance away as possible. also to locate the the preeise position of previously detected target .
this was a great advatage for pilots cause it gave them the opportunity to attack a target at night. i also detected incoming german and japanese planes. m-1 semi-automatic rifle. -
wave
-women accepted for volunteer emergency service (waves)
was created in 1942 in response to the need for additional millitary personal during ww2 waves were an oficcial part of the navy, its members held the same rank and rating as male personel waves could not serve abond comboy ship or aircraft , and millitary were restricted to avity in the antimental u.s at the end of ww2 thre were over 8,000 female officers. -
isoroku yamato
Japanese marshal admiral and commander in chief of the combined fleet
played a vital role (executed the surprise attack) in pearl harbor which made japan vulnerable -
omar bradely george c. marshall
-was a senior offcier & the u.s army
-he was in service in north america and western europe.
-he then became general & the first american army to land in france.
--acted as chief & staff and the "organizer of victory"
-worked closely w/ roosevelt to use millitary to repare by pearl harbor
-built a army of s million men.
later helped overse the creation of the first atomic bomb. -
d day
effected the war tide for the allies positively b/c the battle foresadowed the end of hitlers dream of nazi domination. d-day was the largest air, land ,and sea operation undertaken. the landing included over 5,000 ship ,11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 servise men . by the end the allies had reached the seine river , paris was liberated and the german had been removed from northwestern france, effectively concluding the battle of normandy. -
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the yalta & potsday conference
-the "yp" conference was created for the big 3 to create a sowtion for the end of ww2
-the conf. included the soviet union leader joseph stalin, british prime minister winwston churentill and u.s president roosevelt
-the main countries were u.s , britian & the soviet union countries.
-they made a decision to devided germany into 4 zones, and they allowed free electrions in the count thr german rules. -
truman's fair deal
-truman's pair deal, an extension of roosevelt's new deal included proposals for a nationwide system of compulsory health insurance and a crop subsidy system to provide steady income to farmers
-trumans idea prevailed, congress raised the hardly minumum wage 41 cent to 75 coints extended social security courage to about 10 millions more people & initiated flood controlan irrigation projects