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WORLD WAR II
I. America’s Entry into WWII
Japanese Attack on
Pearl Harbor
George Marshall
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Chief of Staff and
chief military
advisor to FDR
during the War
First 5 Star General
Time Magazine's
Man of the Year,
1943
ABC-1 Agreement
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Secret discussions
between America,
Britain and Canada
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America's territorial
interest was in the
Western Hemisphere
The security of the British
Commonwealth must
be maintained in all
circumstance including
the retention of a Far
East position
Security of sea
communications
between Allied Powers
was essential
European Theater of War
Omar Bradley
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Army field
commander in North
Africa
command of all U.S.
ground forces
invading Germany
from the west
commanded fortythree divisions and 1.3
million men, the
largest body of
American soldiers
ever to serve under a
U.S. field commander
Dwight Eisenhower
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Supreme
Commander of
Allied Forces in
Europe
Planned and
carried out
Operation Torch,
Operation
Overlord
George Patton
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Commander of 1st
Armored Division
and invaded
North Africa in
Operation Torch
Invaded Italy with
General Bernard
Montgomery
ROUGH leader
Operation Barbarossa
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Crossing the Volga
 https://www.youtu
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Fighting in
Stalingrad
 https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=
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Operation Torch
European Theater - Shorts
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Operation Overlord
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jp7yRj-
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Battle of the Bulge
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a8fqG
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Hitler Giving Up
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCn7Xk
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Invasion of Normandy
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Operation
Overlord
Largest
amphibious
operation
Juno, Gold,
Omaha, Utah,
Sword
“D-Day”
Battle of the Bulge
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German Offensive
achieved during
heavy overcast
weather
largest and
bloodiest battle
fought by the
United States in
World War II
Timeline to the End of WWII in
Europe
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Allies take many Axis prisoners
Germany leaves Finland
Mussolini Dies
Hitler Dies
Germans surrender in Italy
Germans surrender in Berlin
Germans surrender in Northern Europe
Unconditional German Surrender on May
9, 1945
Concentration Camps
Liberating the Concentration
Camps
Potsdam Conference
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Potsdam
Conference –
Truman, Churchill,
and Stalin
announced that
Japan must
surrender or be
destroyed.
July 16, 1945 - first
atomic bomb was
detonated
Pacific Theater of War
Chester A. Nimitz
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Commander in
Chief, Pacific
Ocean Areas
(CinCPOA), for
U.S. and Allied air,
land, and sea
forces
Signed Japanese
surrender in 1945
on USS Missouri
Douglas MacArthur
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received the
Medal of Honor for
his service in the
Philippines
Campaign of WWII
US Advancements in Pacific
Islands
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“island hopping”
Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Raid
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Marshall Island
Campaign
Mariana Island
Campaigns
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Battle of Midway
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The battle was a
decisive victory for
the United States that
ended the Japan
threat to the
Hawaiian Islands and
the United States
mainland.
After Midway, the
two opposing fleets
were basically on a
par, and the United
States quickly seized
the offensive.
Bataan Death March
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60-80,000 Filipino
and American
POWs march after 3
month battle
Between 2,500 and
10,000 people died
80 miles
Physical abuse,
murder
 Later judged as war
crime
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Bataan Death March
Japan Dies Hard
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Submarines and
bombers continued
to inflict damage
upon Japan.
Leyte Gulf - series of 3
battles took place
from October 23-26,
1944, knocking out
Japan’s massive and
powerful Navy.
Iwo Jima was
captured in March
1945. Needed for US
bombers to land.
Toward Tokyo
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August 1942 - American forces gained
foothold on Guadalcanal Island and the
Solomon Islands in an attempt to protect the
supply-lines from America to Australia through
the Southwest Pacific.
US Navy leapfrogged islands controlled by
Japan on its way to Tokyo – “Island Hopping”
Major islands of the Marianas fell to U.S.
attackers in July and August 1944
From the Marianas, US B-29 bombers could
reach Japan
History Channel Shorts
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Battle of Coral Bay
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVLGD
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Battle of Okinawa
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Lbv0K
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Battle of Iwo Jima
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0gdFi
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Manhattan Project
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J. Robert
Oppenheimer
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Created the idea for
the atomic bomb
began modestly in
1939
employed more
than 130,000
people and cost
nearly US$2 billion
($36 in 2013)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan Surrenders
America on the Home Front
U.S. Office of War Information
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consolidate government
information services
June 1942 until
September 1945
coordinated the release
of war news for domestic
use, and, using posters
and radio broadcasts,
worked to promote
patriotism, warn about
foreign spies and recruit
women into war work
Executive Order 9066
February 19, 1942, gave the
military broad powers to ban
any citizen from a fifty- to
sixty-mile-wide coastal area
stretching from Washington
state to California and
extending inland into
southern Arizona. The order
also authorized transporting
these citizens to assembly
centers hastily set up and
governed by the military in
California, Arizona,
Washington state, and
Oregon.
Extreme Patriotism
Conscription
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1940 – peacetime
conscription men
between 21 and
45
Pearl Harbor
extending time
conscripted and
age 18 to 64
Tuskegee Airmen
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1st AfricanAmerican military
aviators in US
armed forces
Army was racially
segregated and
US still dealing with
Jim Crow laws
Very successful
Flying Tigers
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Pilots from Army,
Navy, Marines
Private military
contractor, or
mercenaries
Destroyed nearly
300 enemy aircraft
and only lost 14
piolets
Navajo Code Talkers
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Worked to translate
in the Pacific
Theater of War
Transmitted
messages over
military telephone
or radio
communications
nets using formal or
informally
developed codes
built upon their
native languages
Opportunities and Obstacles for
the minorities