ww2

joseph stalin - comm leader ussr

benito mussolini - italys dictattor - inavdes ethiopia and albania

Francisco Franco - spains dictator with help from germany and italy - neutral in war

Hideki Tojo & Hirohito - militarists took over Japan - invaded manchuria and china for resources

how did nazis silence disagreement

controlled everything

attack of what country started the war

germany invasion of poland

blitzkrieg

rapid overwhelming attack to defeat quickly

before war us exchanges destroyer ships with britan for

british military bases

us protested against japan b4 war bc

of their invasion

us banned _____ export to japan

oil - increased anger of japan

what did us do after pearl harbor

declare war on Japan - 3 days later germany & italy declare on us

who became pres after roosevelt died

Harry Truman

why was battle of midway important

june 4-7 ‘42 - weakened japans navy allowing allies to take offense and win - highligthed naval import (turning point of war in pacific)

name of secrect project of bombs

manhattan project - roosevelt had them made but Truman dropped them on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Who was placed in internment camps

Japanese Americans

How many fronts was World War II fought on

2 euro and pacific theater also had Western eastern fronts

How many casualties did it have

Highest rank for casualties and more civilians died than soldiers

Where did most of the interment camps come from in the us

From the West Coast

What were the internment camps like

Harsh living conditions, overcrowded, no privacy

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor - 19 us ships sunk or damaged and over 2300 dead - us enters war

June 6, 1944

D-Day - Troops land France to push into Germany it was the largest land in sea attack in history and liberated, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg (beginning of the end)

Allied powers

France, Great Britain, United States, Soviet Union

Axis powers

Germany, Italy, and Japan

What day did World War II start?

September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland

lebensraum

Living space for German people - and is Austria in 1938 and occupies Sudetenland and following year all of Czechoslovakia

Nazi Soviet pact

August 1939 Germany science non-aggression packed with Soviet Union - Meant to keep British from entering a war and agreed to split Poland among themselves

Nazi invasion of Poland

September 1939 German blitzkrieg overruns Poland, Britain and France declare war in Germany

France’s Maginot line

Massive defenses built along Frances German border after World War I

Fall of France

May 19 40 Nazis move around Maginot line reach Frances Northern coast in 10 days and France surrenders - Paris fell in a few weeks

Miracle at Dunkirk

Spring 1940 allied forces push into beaches at Dunkirk - French and British troops rescued by 850 British ships

The battle of Britain

Summer 1940 - May 1941 -German luitwaffe makes night bomb raids over Great Britain - new technology allowed British to hold off Germany and prove Hitler can be stopped

Operation Barbarossa

June 1941 Germany breaks non-aggression pack and invades USSR - Soviet Union uses scorched earth policy and Germany move onto Moscow and Stalingrad

Battle of Stalingrad

August 1942 to February 1943 - Germany wants to seize oil but surrender due to starvation and cold - turning point and bloodiest battle in history

Liberation of Europe

Allied soldiers push into Paris and free France - Soviet Army closes in Germany from the east - US and British forces advance from the west

Battle of Berlin

Begins April 1945 and Hitler commits suicide - Germany surrenders in May

Battle of Midway

June 4, 1942 Japan targeted midway to get whole US fleet to the island but US attack on Japanese aircraft carriers were successful

Battle of Guadalcanal

August 1942 - February 1943 Allies attack Japanese airbase in Solomon Islands - more than 24,000 dead

Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

February - June 1942 Fighting over small islands close to Japan with high casualties on both sides