Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
America at War
Declarations of War
True Story
Japanese Resources
US Home Front
Military Mobilization
Manhattan Project1942
TOP SECRET
Wartime Discrimination
A. Philip Randolph
Japanese Internment
World in 1942
C. Military Plan:
1. Economic blockades on
Germany & Italy
2. Air attacks on Germany
3. Peripheral strikes in the
Mediterranean
4. Final direct assault on
Germany
Doolittle Raid
militarily insignificant raid on Japan in
April,1942
retaliation for Pearl Harbor.
Helped American morale since U.S. had
not yet struck back after Pearl Harbor.
Bombed Tokyo before crash landing in
China
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Enemy at the Gates
Scenes 2 & 3
Crossing the Volga and the Suicide
Charge
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WWII Battlefront
Atlantic II
N. Africa
Invasion of Italy
Significance of Battle
Second front established (to USSRs joy)
August 25, 1st Allied troops enter Paris.
By end of summer, Belgium, France and Luxembourg
liberated
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Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan
Day of Days
Minutes 2 - 11
Invasion of Germany
Pre-invasion bombing
i. Hamburg all but
wiped out in summer 1943
ii. Berlin and other
major cities and targets hit
repeatedly
US employs carpet bombing
and firebombing tactics.
Level entire cities
Especially factories and oil
refineries.
Initial Allied invasion in Sept.
1944 repelled by Germany
Germany held the River Rhine
by mid-September on the edge
of Germany.
Rhine was last major line of
defense to Berlin
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WWII:Battlefront
Disc 5
Battle of the Bulge
April 1945
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WWII Battlefront
Pacific Campaign
The Battle of Midway
Island Hopping
began in 1943
eventually pushed Japanese
forces all the way back to
Japan
Sought to neutralize
Japanese island strongholds
with air and sea power and
then hop on to another island
Battle of Guadalcanal
(Solomon Islands -- August
1942-February 1943)
First Japanese land defeat
after 6 months of brutal
jungle fighting.
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Fog of War
Lesson #5
Death of FDR
Allies marching on Berlin
FDR elected to an
unprecedented fourth
term in office.
April 12, 1945 -- FDR
died at Warm Springs,
GA (before V-E day)
Vice President Harry
Truman becomes
president
Potsdam Conference
(Mid-July August 1945)
Three allied leaders
(Truman, Stalin, and
Clement Atlee) warned
Japan to surrender or suffer
"complete and utter
destruction.
Japan refused removal of
emperor but showed signs
in secret dispatches it might
be willing to surrender if
emperor remains on throne.
Military advisors warn of
casualties as high as 1
million if U.S. invades
Japan.
Hiroshima
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Atomic Debate
Debate on
Bloody U.S. victories at Iwo Jima and
Okinawa were only a preview of the
horrific carnage that would occur if U.S.
invaded the mainland.
Japan was preparing women and children
to defend Japan as well.
Japan had started the war with a sneak
attack; the U.S. was finishing it.
Other Possibilities
Recent scholarship suggests Truman
sought to intimidate Soviet Union in the
post-war world by using the bomb.
Proponents of Trumans decision say this
was not the key issue in Trumans decision;
Ending the war was the overriding goal
Some suggest a demonstration of the
bomb to Japan was a viable alternative.
Yet, U.S. did not know if the bomb would
work
And only two bombs were even available in
August 1945
Still others
Aftermath
Holocaust
Six million Jews were
liquidated as part of Hitler's
"Final Solution"
Six million others also
killed including Gypsies,
Homosexuals, Soviet
POWs, physically
handicapped, Jehova's
Witnesses and political
opponents.
US Response