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Unit 6 Content Review pgs 24 - 28 WORLD WAR II World War II: Timeline pg 24 • Hitler invades Poland – September 1, 1939 • Bombing of Pearl Harbor (U.S. enters war) – December 7, 1941 • Bataan Death March – April 1942 • Battle of Midway – June 1942 • Invasion of Normandy – June 6, 1944 • Battle of the Bulge – December 1944 • German Surrender (V-E Day is May 8) – End of April into early May 1945 • Dropping of the Atomic Bombs – August 1945 Causes of WWII – pg 25 • Rise of European Dictators – Adolf Hitler: Nazi leader in Germany 1933 – Benito Mussolini: Fascist leader of Italy 1922 – Joseph Stalin: Communist leader of Soviet Union 1922 • Failure of the League of Nations – Goal was to prevent large scale war after World War I. United States and Soviet Union did not join leaving it too weak to prevent the rise of dictators. • Germany’s Invasion of Poland – September 1, 1939: The end of the APPEASMENT policy that Britain and France had practiced toward Hitler, and the first use of German blitzkrieg. • Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor – Surprise attack on U.S. Naval forces at Hawaii, America abandons policy of neutrality and joins Allies..enters war The Homefront – pg 26 • Rationing and Wartime Production – Factories switched from peace to wartime production (cars tanks) – Ends the unemployment of the Great Depression – Rationing of food and supplies to send resources overseas to support the allied war effort. • Women in the Workforce – Women worked in the military (mostly clerical) and in factory jobs that had been left by fighting men. • Minorities – Tuskegee Airmen: first African American pilots, fought in the war and began the work of breaking down racial stereotypes. – Navajo Code-Talkers: used their native language to allow Allied communications in the Pacific Theater ‘in the clear’.. • Japanese Internment (EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066) – Japanese-Americans put in camps out of fear they may spy for their “homeland”… “CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER” v. civil rights War in Europe – pg 27 • Campaign in North Africa & Italy – Although Stalin wanted the U.S. to begin by invading France, we first went to North Africa. – Gen. George Patton led the troops there to victory over the German and then Italian forces in Sicily. • D-Day / Normandy Landings – June 6 1944 Allies invade Normandy and create a two-front war for the German forces (fighting in the Soviet Union, and now France). • Campaign in France & Germany – From Normandy the Allies took Paris, and moved east. – After the German defeat at the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies move in to Germany and eventually take Berlin. • The Holocaust – Genocide of the Jewish and other “undesirable” populations according to Hitler and the Nazi forces. – Results in the deaths of nearly 12 million people (6 million Jews) War in the Pacific – pg 28 • Bataan Death March – Philippines is invaded by Japan and 75,000 U.S. / Filipino forces surrender – POWs are forced to march through 60 miles of jungle, killing about 5,000 American soldiers. • Battle of Midway (last Japanese offensive in Pacific) – Turning point of the war in the Pacific – Admiral Chester Nimitz anticipated a Japanese attack and turned the tables to destroy much of the Japanese fleet. • Island-Hopping Campaign – Douglas MacArthur’s strategy in the Pacific was to move troops island to island to avoid Japanese troops where possible and gain a closer vantage point to mainland Japan for U.S. bombers • Manhattan Project & Atomic Bombs – President Truman is advised and decides to drop atomic bombs; developed by the Manhattan Project; on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan to quickly end the war and save American lives that would be lost in an invasion of the Japanese home islands