History Final - Part 1

How did WWII progress from 1939 - end of 1941? (Pre Pearl Harbor)

depression led to the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and Asia, unstable economies, Japan take French Indochina (US stops oil trade)

US Involvement- Lend-Lease Act

Britain couldn’t do cash + carry/ pay upfront (needed loans), give aid to Stalin

US Involvement- Atlantic Charter

Aug 14, 1941→ Churchill and FDR met aboard the USS Augusta (C wants US military support, FDR asks for Dec of War)

US Involvement-Pearl Harbor

Causes- US cut off oil + steel trade w/Japan, supplied China, J wants US Pacific states

Dec 7, 1941 - attack

Results- 19 ships destroyed, 2300 Americans killed, 1100 wonded

US Involvement - Declaration of War

12//8 Japan invade Philippines/FDR asks for Dec of War

12/11 US forced to retreat/ Germany declares war on US

Pacific Theater- Island Hopping

cant invade Japan, get as close to mainland as possible, cut off supply lines

Pacific Theater- How did the war progress in the Pacific?

Guadalcanal → 1st offense attack

Leyte Gulf → US back to Phipppines

Iwo Jima → super deadly, nearing mainland, lost most capability

Pacific Theater - Atomic Bombs

Aug 6 1945 →”Little Boy’ dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 9 → “Fat Man'“ dropped on Nagasaki

Sep 2 → Jap surrender to MacArthur

The Homefront- Opposition to War

Charles Lindbergh- led the America first committee (secret nazi)

Jeanette Rankin - only member of Congress against Dec of war

The Homefront - Women in WWII

Raising kids alone, many working jobs

The Homefront - Minority Groups in WWII

Mexican Americans - sent immigrants back to Mexico cuz they were taking jobs

Jap Americans - in camps on west coast

African Americans - fighting in war but in separate units

A. Philip Randolph

led the march on Washington- industries wouldn’t hire back people at the start of war

The Homefront - Internment Camps

1. Why?

2. Who was targeted?

3. Supreme Court Decisions

Holocaust- Escalation of Persecution

Holocaust- Jewish Refugees

1. What happened to them?

2. St. Louis

Origins of the Cold War- Why did the US and Soviets clash?

Origins of the Cold War- Yalta vs. Potsdam

1. What was agreed to?

2. How did things change after these conferences?

Containment— George Kennan

Containment- George Kennan

Containment- Truman Doctrine

Containment- Marshall Plan

Containment-Iron Curtain

Germany- Division

Germany- Berlin Airlift

Alliances- NATO

Alliances- Warsaw Pact

Korean War- Chinese Civil War

Korean War- Korea Post WWII

Korean War

1. How did it start?

2. How did the war progress?

3. What was the result?

Korean War- Truman vs. MacArthur

Second Red Scare & Communism - Loyalty Review Board\

1. Who was targeted?

2. Why?

Second Red Scare & Communism - The House Committee on Un-American Activities 

1. Who was targeted?

2. Why?

Second Red Scare & Communism - Communists in the United States

Second Red Scare & Communism - McCarthyism

1. Rise to power

2. How did he target people?

3. Downfall

European Theater (After Pearl Harbor)-Allies Strategy

Kamikazes

Jap. suicide pilots

Wehrmacht

German Military (Heer-Amry…Krisgsmarine-Navy…Luftwaffe-Airforce)