WORLD WAR II

HOW WW2 STARTED

• Hitler took over Poland.
• The US were isolationists
• Italy and Japan were the axis powers with Hilter

LEADERS

• France- Charles de Gaulle
• US- Harry S Truman
• Great Britin- Winston Churchill
• US- franklin d Roosevelt

LEADERS

• Italy- Mussolini
• Germany- Hitler
• Japan- Hideki Tojo

ALLIES

AXIS

HOW & WHY U.S. GOT INVOLVED

WAR IN EUROPE

• Germany invaded the Soviet Union
• The allies conquered Europe

EUROPE

• US entered the war and Allie powers were not strong enough to
• attack Germany, instead we went to North Africa and defeated them
• November 1942, Allie troops landed in North Africa, their mission was to
• capture Germany's general, Edwin Rommel, known as "Desert Fox"
• May 1943, they surrendered.

EUROPE CONT.

• The allies crossed the Mediterranean Sea to protect Italy
• When Italy surrendered, Germany sent troops to help the Italians win
• It took 2 years for the allies to drive Germans away from Italian soil

WAR IN PACIFIC

• By the spring of 1942, Japanese forces controlled
• They controlled an area almost 1/7 of the world
• From that point, they could easily invade Hawaii
• The US bombed Japan and Japan never threatened us again
• They had lost 322 airplanes

PACIFIC CONT.

• V-E day is when the Japanese Air Force and navy had been destroyed
• The allies were preparing to invade Okinawa
• Japanese pilots flew planes filled with explosives into the American warships
• The warships blew up and many people died
• The soldiers flying the missions were called kamikaze pilots

PACIFIC CONT.

• The kamikaze attacked 5000 American people

ATOMIC BOMB

• The president FDR died from a stroke
• The Vice President Harry s Truman took over
• He decided to attack Japan using the atomic bomb (very powerful)
• The manhattan project was a secret program to building an atomic weapon

V-J DAY

• Truman decided to Drop the bomb on Japan in Hiroshima
• It killed 100,000 people
• Japan did not surrender
• 3 days later, a second bomb exploded Nagasaki in Japan
• It killed at least 70,000 people (finally Japan surrendered)

SERVICEMEN

• After the attack of pearl harbor, Americans decided to fight
• Over 5 million people volunteered to join the military in WW2
• 10 million was drafted
• They mixed all Americans and they were all trained together
• They had training camps called GI's

LIFE IN COMBAT

• MOST MEN FEARED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
• They complained about the weather and what they didn't have
• Many soldiers died - more than 292,000
• Americans died WW2, and the ones who survived were very proud

GOVERNMENT

• When WW2 began, we started to focus on consumer goods
• The Germans were shocked to see how American government transformed

INCREASING PRODUCTION

• Automakers began manufacturing tanks, jeeps, and trucks
• The War Production Board organized nationwide drives
• To prevent strikes, the government established the War Labor Board
• The US aircraft produced 96,000 planes a year by 1944

CONSUMERS

• Consumers had shortages of almost everything
• The depression ended by expanding war production (created new jobs)
• The OPA set up a rationing system
• Each person received a ration coupon
• Americans planted "victory gardens" they produced 1/3 of all the vegetables eaten

WOMEN

• More than 6 million women were working as laboring in war industries
• Women worked as electricians, machinists, doctors, and police officers
• They were payed only about 60% as men while doing the same jobs
• Most women wanted to keep their jobs after the war
• They also took jobs in the military

JAPANESE-AMERICANS

• After the attack on Pearl Harbor, people were suspicious about the Japanese
• People thought that the Japanese Americans were secretly helping Japan
• The president forced about 120,000 Japanese American to leave their homes and business
• They were moved to interment camps
• Me volunteered for the military service. Congress gave $20,000 to every Japanese American

AFRICAN AMERICANS

• Cowrie miller was praised as a hero when he started shooting at the Japanese
• About 900,000 African Americans served in the military during the war
• They were assigned to no combat jobs- later on the policies changed and African Americans were able to serve
• Factories would not hire african Americans
• By 1944, 2 million African Americans worked in defense plants across the nation

JEWISH AMERICANS

• 4.5 million Jews were in the US when Hilter took power in 1933
• Most Jews lived under thee shadow of Anti-Semitism (prejudice against Jews)
• When Hilter and his Nazi party took over, they forced Jews to be removed from the government
• The US only admitted 100,000 Jewish refugees
• In 1944, FDR rescued 200,000 Jews from the nazis. More than 500,000 Jews were in WW2 military

MEXICAN AMERICANS

• Jose Lopez was called a "one man army" because of his skills
• More than 500,000 Latinos served in the military during WW2
• Although it was not segregated, there was still racist comments
• During the Bracero Program, many Mexican farm workers were brought to the US
• They moved to cities to take jobs

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