WW2 Review

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What were US and German goals and strategies after Pearl Harbor?
__**Germany:**__

==Goals- Complete control of ALL of Europe, North Africa, and West Africa immediately==

^^Strategy- Keep playing offensive, Invade North Africa to gain oil, Indave USSR, Finish invasion of Great Britain^^

Tactics- Blitzkrieg (Lightning War), INtensify Bombings, Democratize enemy civilians, Eliminate all “Inferior” races ,Create a superior weapon (nuclear bomb)

__**US:**__

==Goals- Cush Great Britain, __Unconditional Surrender__==

^^Strategy- (3 Pronged Attack)^^


1. ^^South Italy (USA/Britain)^^
2. ^^East Poland (USSR)^^
3. ^^West France (Britain/ USA)^^

Tactics- Air Power to destroy production of war goods and morale, Amphibious invasions in France and Italy, Ground assault moves as a wave across Europe, __Fight in smaller groups__, Control only locations of value (bridges etc.)

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What were US and Japan goals and strategies after Pearl Harbor?
__**US:**__

==Goals- Crush Tokyo/Unconditional Surrender==

^^Strategy- __Island hopping__ ( capture key locations to move US closer to Tokyo)^^

Tactics- Amphibious assaults, Perseverance

__**Japan:**__

==Goals-Control ALL of Asia==

^^Strategy- Occupy ALL locations/fight __anywhere__, Intimidate the enemy^^

Tactics- __Defend islands__ with land, sea, and air power, Kamikaze
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Stalingrad (1942)
* Germans attack Soviets at Southern Russian city of Stalingrad
* Surrounded Soviets persists for 5 months before Germans retreated
* 1.1 million Soviet deaths
* End of German advance to the east
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Operation Torch (1942)
* 1st American Invasion
* Allies invade Morocco and Algeria to trap Nazi’s
* Nazi kicked out of North Africa by May 1943
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D-Day (06-06-1944)
* Allies need to get a foothold back in mainland Europe
* Largest military invasion in US history
* Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Allied Commander)
* Phantom Army
* Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy, France
* High Seas, Fog, Rocky Cliffs, Miscommunication, Chaos
* %%**Casualties**%%
* Nazi- 320,000 (30,000 killed)
* US- 135,000 (29,000) killed)
* Britain- 65000 (11000 killed)
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Battle of the Bulge ( 12-(16-27)- 1944)
* Germans made their last major effort to fight back and keep allies out of Germany
* Germans broke the allied line in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium
* 76,000 Allied casualties needed to crush the Bulge
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Berlin (04-16-1945)
* American lets Soviets enter Berlin first
* 200,000 Soviets died
* US and Russians meet in Berlin to Celebrate
* Hitler commits Suicide?
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Why was Island hopping better than Japan’s strategy?
Island hopping is trying to control what you can get in order to make it to your goal location, Japan was just trying to take anything they could have
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Pacific Theatre Battle-
Hiroshima- US used 1st atomic bomb, killed 120000 Japans, No surrender
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Compare European and Pacific Theatre
US goal for both was unconditional surrender, and to destroy a specific location, and the goals for the opposite side was to control EVERYTHING
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Manhattan Project
a code for the secret research to build an atomic bomb from Uranium
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Total War
Everyone in the country has some kind of involvement in war
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What is rationing?
Cutting back on your spending and the amount of food you are consuming to help our troops
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In what ways was sacrificed on the homefront important during WW2?
The small sacrifices people made at home greatly helped people fighting in the war. Simple things like food rationing kept the people fighting in the war fed
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How was the homefront in WW2 different than the homefront in Iraq?
The war in Iraq was not a total war, everyone in the country was not involved
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Why was the roll of women required to change in WW2? How did it continue after the war?
Men went overseas to fight, but materials and resources were still needed, so women had to step up and begin working a mans job. Women then had a new feeling of independence that even when the war was over would still be there
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What did american children do to help with the war efforts?
Collected scrap metal, bought war bonds, collected milk weed
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Stereotype
a widely held but fixed and __oversimplified__ image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
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Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews
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Genocide
the __deliberate__ killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of __destroying__ that nation or group.