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Unit 6 Content Review
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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