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Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans had been fighting in the Soviet Union since June 1941. In November 1941, the bitter cold had stopped them outside the Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad. When spring came the Germans were ready to fight. Hitler wanted to capture the Soviet Union oil fields and wipe out Stalingrad. The Germans conquered it house by house but the Soviet Union had trapped them in. Eventually German troops surrendered on January 31, 1943. -
The Lend-Lease Plan
Roosevelt tried to help Britain with money issues by suggesting a new plan that he called he lend-lease policy. It meant he president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States. -
War Products on Board
The WPB decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industrie. The WPB also organized nationwide drives to collect scrap iron, tin cans, paper, rags, and cooking fat for recycling into war goods. -
Office of Price Administration
They fought inflation by freezing prices on goods. Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before. The higher taxes reduce consumer demand on scarce goods by leaving workers less to spend. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
On December 7th, 1941, in Hawaii Japan had planned for almost a year for the attack on the harbor. The Japanese flew very low down to the group on there way to the harbor so that its was harder for the Americans to track them on radar.The aircrafts held bombs. The bombed the harbor an d2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 were wounded.21 ships were damaged, including 8 battleships. More than 300 aircraft were severely damaged or destroyed. -
Internment
Because of pearl harbor there was a wave of uncertainty against the Japanese Americans. In early 1942, the war department called for the mass evacuation of all Japanese Americans from Hawaii. General Delos Emmons, the military governor of Hawaii resisted the order because 37% of the people in Hawaii were Japanese Americans. To remove them would have destroyed he islands economy. However, he was eventually forced to order internment or confinement on them. -
Battle of the Atlantic
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along Americas east coast. The German aim in the atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In the first four months of 1942, the Germans sank 87 ships off the Atlantic shore. 7 months into it the Germans had destroyed a total of 681 allied ships in the atlantic. -
U.S. Convoy System
The allies respond to the battle or atlantic by organizing their cargo ships into convoys. Convoys were groups of ships travelling together for mutual protection, as they had done on world war 1. -
Operation Torch
A invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
George Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Under this bill women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions. -
Manhattan Project
The test for the atomic bomb was set in Manhattan. They made a plan after they created the atomic bomb and they wanted to explode it/test if it would work in Manhattan. -
Uncoditional surrender
Enemy nations would have to accept whatever terms of peace the allies dictated. The two leaders also discussed where to strike next. The Americans argued that the best approach to victory was to assemble a massive invasion fleet in Britain and to launch it across the English Channel, through France, and into the heart of Germany. -
Bloody Anzio
This battle lasted 4 months until the end of May 1944. It left about 25,000 allied and 30,000 axis casualties. During the year after Anzio, German armies continued to put up strong resistance. The effort to free Italy did not succeed until 1945, when Germany itself was close to collapse. -
The Battle of the Bulge
As the Germans swept westward, they captured 120 Americans GIs near Malmedy. Elite German troops(the SS troop) herded the prisoners into a large field and mowed them down with machine guns and pistols. The battle raged for a month. When it was over, the Germans had been pushed back, and little seemed to have changed. -
Korematsu v. United States
The supreme court ruled that the government's policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps was justified on the basis of "military necessity." The case was argued because the Japanese Thought it was unconstitutional to confine one group of people so they went to court. -
D-Day
The largest land-sea-air operation in army history. shortly after midnight, three divisions parachuted down behind German lines. They were followed upon thousands of seaborne soldiers. D-Day was very chaotic and many people died. It was fought on a beach and they approached on water. -
Harry S. Truman
He became the 33rd president of the United States because President Roosevelt dies of a stroke . -
Death of Hitler
Hitler shot himself in the head while his wife swallowed poison. Hitler ordered the two bodies to be carried outside, soaked with Gasoline, and burned. The Death of Hitler was a big reason WW2 ended. -
V-E Day
The Allies celebrated V-E Day. A victory in Europe Day. The war ended in Europe was finally over.
