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World War II
The War
Background Information
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A. War Costs
1. US Debt 1940 - $9 billion
US Debt 1945 - $98 billion
2. The war cost $330 billion -- 10 times the cost of WWI & as
much as all previous federal spending since 1776
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B. Human Costs
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B. Human Costs
1. 50 million people died (compared to 15 million in
WWI)
2. 21.3 million Russians (7.7 million civilians)
3. 11 million died as a result of the HOLOCAUST
(6 million Jews + 5 million others)
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Why the war happened…
•1939-1945
•US involvement 1941-1945
1939
Sept.1 Germany
invades Poland
(official start to
the war)
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1941
1945
Sept. 3 -
Dec. 7 – Japan
May -
Sept. - Atomic
Britain &
France declare
war on
Germany
bombs Pearl
Harbor; US enters
the War
Germans
Surrender
Bombing of
Hiroshima &
Nagasaki,
Japanese
Surrender
Chapter 18
Section 2 Notes
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Government Promoted the War…
Bob Hope performing for troops during WWII
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U.S. lives
during
WWII…
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Sugar, butter, meat, gasoline and more were rationed.
Women at work…
Play
Video
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WWII Discrimination…
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Japanese Relocation…
“We saw all these people behind the fence,
looking out, hanging onto the wire, and
looking out because they were anxious to
know who was coming in. But I will never
forget the shocking feeling that human
beings were behind this fence like animals
[crying]. And we were going to also lose our
freedom and walk inside of that gate and
find ourselves…cooped up there…when the
gates were shut, we knew that we had lost
something that was very precious; that we
were no longer free.“
Mary Tsukamoto
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Chapter 18
Section 3 Notes
#1 Allied offensive in Europe
Invasion of Italy
Interactive Map
#2 Fighting in the Atlantic & by air…
1939 : 222 ships sunk (114 by submarine)
1940 : 1059 ships sunk (471 by submarine)
1941 : 1328 ships sunk (432 by submarine)
1942 : 1661 ships sunk (1159 by submarine)
1943 : 597 ships sunk (463 by submarine)
1944 : 247 ships sunk (132 by submarine)
1945 : 105 ships sunk (56 by submarine)
Battle of Atlantic
•From first day
of war to last
day.
•Most important
battle!!
The USS Reuben James, seen
here on March 9, 1932 on her
recommissioning in Philadelphia.
She would be the first US
warship sunk by a U-boat.
U-47 commanded by U-boat
ace Gunther Prien, receiving a
salute from a German Cruiser
after returning from Scapa
Flow.
#3 Success invading Normandy
“by the time
Invasion of Normandy
you wake in the
morning, twenty
thousand men
may have been
killed
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D-Day Beaches
Video
#5 Allied forces defeat Germany
Battle of the Bulge
Interactive Map
Yalta Conference
#4 Holocaust
Chapter 18
Section 4 Notes
#1 Island-Hopping Plan
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•Makin Island
•Nov. 1943
•Tarawa
•Control of a
vital airstrip
•Marshall Islands
•Key bases
taken which
gave good
position
•Truk Islands
•Japan HQ
•Mariana Islands
•Provided
airstrips to
attack Japan
•New Guinea
•July 1944
•Philippines
#2 Effect Iwo Jima & Okinawa had on
the war
• Battles of Iwo Jima &
Okinawa
• Showed continued Japanese
resistance
• Fighting on islands was
incredibly bloody
• Existence of Kamikaze
attacks
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• Resistance forced Truman to
make decision on atomic
bomb
#3 Reason for Atomic Bomb Use
• Invasion would be costly
• Show Soviet Union power of
new weapon
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#4 Costs of War
Human Costs
*30 Million civilian lives lost
*50 Million lost overall
*More deaths than any war in
history so far
Economic Costs
*Armament and military
costs
Totaling $1 trillion
*More property
destroyed than in any
war in history so far
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