War for Europe and North Africa - Part II

6. D-Day was the day when we invaded Normany, France, on June 6th, 1944.

7. At the Battle of the Bulge, Germany tried to split allied forces, but they was unsuccessful.

8. Allied troops found concentration camps in Germany.

9. Hitler and his wife committed suicide, FDR died of a heart attack, and Truman became the new US president.

War for Europe & North Africa

1. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that they would concentrate on Germany and the rest of Europe's Axis powers before worrying about Japan, because the European Axis forces, especially Germany, were a much larger threat to America.

2. Winning the Battle of the Atlantic was crucial for America because it would give them a much better position to supply Britain.

3. The Battle of Stalingrad was important because it was when Germany turned to defensive tactics. This was considered the turning point in the war.

4. The Ally powers won the war in North Africa, which gave them a better position to invade Europe.

5. Once the Allies invaded Italy, Mussolini was thrown in jail by the king of Italy.

Mobilizing for WWII.

1. The Selective Service System expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces' needs.

2. Many women at the time worked military jobs, except those which involved actual fighting.

3. Minorities worked with the intention of obtaining employment in military jobs. They eventually got these rights and worked harder than most Americans.

4. Manufacturers made weapons and vehicles for war, and were overthrown and controlled by the government.

5. The Office of Scientific Research and Development helped scientists to create new things that would be helpful to the US in war.

6. The Entertainment Industry played a huge role in creating propaganda, as businesses like Disney would make films with large quantities of propaganda.

7. The Office of Price Administration fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents, and it rationed food, such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee.

8. The War Production Board rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics.

9. The Office of Price Administration set up a system for rationing, or establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. Under this system, households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline.

Japan and U.S. Relations in 1941

Japan and U.S. Relations in 1941

Document A
-By conquering the south, Japan would have a good position to attack at America's source of strategic materials

-Japan and America are at war
Document B

-Japan is in the act of encirclement to isolate and surround America
-Japan is surrounding America by the Pacific Ocean
Document C
-Japan and the US are trying to negotiate

Document D
-Japan needs to keep great responsibilities to win the war
Document E

-Japan attacks America at pearl harbor

-America was at peace with Japan before this event----betrayal

-Because the attack was obviously planned weeks ahead, Japan has shown to be giving the US false statements of negotiation for continued peace

-US declares war on Japan

America Moves Toward War

1. The 1939 Neutrality Act allowed countries at war to buy supplies from the US if they paid fully for them, to stay out of debt.

2. The Axis Powers were Germany, Japan, and Italy.

4. The Atlantic Charter allowed Britain to borrow weapons, ammunition, and other equipment from the United States.

5. The Ally Powers were the United States, the UK, France, and the Soviet Union.

6. The Pearl Harbor attack almost totally destroyed the U.S. pacific fleet, destroying 21 ships.

7. Germany and Italy, two axis powers, declared war on the United States in order to gain more international power and had promised to help each other in any form of trouble.

"Isolationism" and FDR (1935 - 1941)

1. Isolationists wanted to make it so that America wouldn't have to move out of its borders to keep itself safe. Isolationism is a misleading term because the policy is stricly militarily, and isolationists were still open to free trade with all other countries.

2. Some isolationists felt that there was no need to feel threatened by developments in Europe and Asia because they felt America was too powerful in many aspects to feel threatened by other countries so far away, and those countries were not powerful enough to be a threat to America.

3. The purpose of the Nye Committee hearing were to find the reasons why America got involved in World War I to help prevent intervention in World War II.

4. Two impressions that the Nye Committee hearings created were that big businesses were a major cause of the US getting involved in World War I and that Roosevelt was trying to get involved in World War II.

5. The purpose of the Neutrality Acts were to prevent the United States from getting involved in World War II.

6. Some Americans considered Roosevelt's leadership radical and dangerous because he was trying to get America involved in World War II as well as trying to get elected as president for the third time.

7. "Cash and carry" was a system to supply the allies without causing problems internationally. The allies would pay America for supplies so that they would not be in debt.

8. Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the United States because of the threat Japan caused for China and other countries due to their increase in aggression.

9. The purpose of the America First Committee was to support isolationists' ideas. This, as planned, would make America's feelings and ideas come before the ideas of foreign countries.

World Events Set Stage for Isolationism

1. The Japanese were unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles because they didn't receive any respect, which led to an anti-western nationalist sentiment in Japan.

2. In order to become a stronger power, Japan took the tactics of all other top countries and combined them. The U.S. threatened Japan due to the fact they were expanding westward into the pacific.

3. Japan's rising power was becoming recognized by the western powers, and they signed a pact to keep their navy under a premeditated number.

4. The Senate's willingness to ratify the Kellogg-Briand Pact reelected two strong and widely held sentiments, which were that the U.S. enjoyed the freedom to defend themselves and others.

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6. Chinese dissidents were said to have blown up one of their train tracks, and they wanted to expand their empire's self reliance.

7. Both the Reichstag fire and the explosion on the Japanese railway in Manchuria gave justification for unjustifiable things.

8. The United States stayed alone in order to prevent a new war from breaking out.

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