WW2 Module

Dictator Aggression

Appeasement means to give into someone in order to keep peace. At the Munich Conference in 1938, Britain and France gave into Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland in order to avoid war. This was a cause of WWII because Hitler believed that Britain and France would keep giving into his demands to avoid going to war, therefore appeasement encouraged him to take more aggressive action in the future.

Reasons why WW2 Started

Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Dictator Aggression
Germany Invades Poland
(US joins because...) Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Allies v Axis Powers

Allies: Great Britain, France, China, the Soviet Union and the U.S. in 1941, and Italy in 1943.

Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan

Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II.

Battle of Midway

Battle of Midway, (June 3–6, 1942), World War II naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.

Battle of Normandy

D-Day

Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. This opened a new front for the allies to defeat German forces.

Holocaust

Liberation of Camps

Holocaust, the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany.

US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945 and Russian Forces liberated Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz—the largest killing center and concentration camp complex—in January 1945.

Japanese Internment

Ex Order 9066

Japanese Americans are put into camps in the U.S. because of the growing suspicion they are against the US because of the issues with Pearl Harbor.

Reparations would be paid in the 1980s and President Clinton would issue a public apology to the Japanese American Community for the act.

Propaganda

Posters used to convince people to do things.

Like victory gardens, rationing, join the military as enlisted or nurses, don't speak about the war, and portray Americans as the Hero.

Manhattan Project

Atomic Bomb

Created in Tennessee, Washington State, and New Mexico.

Dropped on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Japan surrendered and we won the war.

...other War Technology

Gas Masks
Planes fitted with machine guns on them
Better bigger tanks
Trench Warfare still used

Changing Roles of Women

Women began to work and after the war didn't go back into the home like they had done after WW1.

Propaganda

war bonds
men go to enlist
victory gardens
women working
rationing
volunteering

Rationing

The concept of saving supplies and distributing them to the people equally by way of ration cards. Food and Gasoline were rationed.

President Truman

Truman, (born May 8, 1884, Lamar, Missouri, U.S.—died December 26, 1972, Kansas City, Missouri), 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War.

Special Groups

Tuskegee Airmen-all African American pilot group, helped to integrate the armed forces.
Flying Tigers, The First American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Republic of China Air Force in 1941–1942, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), Navy (USN), and Marine Corps (USMC), recruited under President Franklin Roosevelt's authority.
Navajo Code Talkers, Spoke their language as a secret code for the U.S. military. The Japanese were never able to break it.

Congressional Medal of Honor

Lieutenant Vernon J. Baker

Polio Vaccine

Polio vaccine, preparation of poliovirus given to prevent polio, an infectious disease of the nervous system. The first polio vaccine, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) or Salk vaccine, was developed in the early 1950s by American physician Jonas Salk.

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