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World War II The War Background Information Quick Facts (write 2-3) 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 2 Quick Facts (write 2-3) B. Human Costs 3 Quick Facts (write 2-3) 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) 4 Why the war happened… •1939-1945 •US involvement 1941-1945 1939 Sept.1 Germany invades Poland (official start to the war) 5 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 10 Government Promoted the War… Bob Hope performing for troops during WWII 11 U.S. lives during WWII… 12 Sugar, butter, meat, gasoline and more were rationed. Women at work… Play Video 13 WWII Discrimination… 14 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 15 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 ” 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 23 •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 24 • 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 25 #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 26