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(LightningWar),INtensifyBombings,Democratizeenemycivilians,Eliminateall“Inferior”races,Createasuperiorweapon(nuclearbomb)
US:
==Goals- Cush Great Britain, Unconditional Surrender==
^^Strategy- (3 Pronged Attack)^^
Tactics−AirPowertodestroyproductionofwargoodsandmorale,AmphibiousinvasionsinFranceandItaly,GroundassaultmovesasawaveacrossEurope,Fightinsmallergroups,Controlonlylocationsofvalue(bridgesetc.)
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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(LightningWar),INtensifyBombings,Democratizeenemycivilians,Eliminateall“Inferior”races,Createasuperiorweapon(nuclearbomb)
US:
==Goals- Cush Great Britain, Unconditional Surrender==
^^Strategy- (3 Pronged Attack)^^
Tactics−AirPowertodestroyproductionofwargoodsandmorale,AmphibiousinvasionsinFranceandItaly,GroundassaultmovesasawaveacrossEurope,Fightinsmallergroups,Controlonlylocationsofvalue(bridgesetc.)
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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−Amphibiousassaults,Perseverance
Japan:
==Goals-Control ALL of Asia==
^^Strategy- Occupy ALL locations/fight anywhere, Intimidate the enemy^^
Tactics−Defendislandswithland,sea,andairpower,Kamikaze
Stalingrad (1942)
Operation Torch (1942)
D-Day (06-06-1944)
Battle of the Bulge ( 12-(16-27)- 1944)
Berlin (04-16-1945)
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
Pacific Theatre Battle-
Hiroshima- US used 1st atomic bomb, killed 120000 Japans, No surrender
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
Manhattan Project
a code for the secret research to build an atomic bomb from Uranium
Total War
Everyone in the country has some kind of involvement in war
What is rationing?
Cutting back on your spending and the amount of food you are consuming to help our troops
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
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
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
What did american children do to help with the war efforts?
Collected scrap metal, bought war bonds, collected milk weed
Stereotype
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews
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.