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WWII Unit Concept Guide
People You Should Know Dates You Should Know
Franklin D. Roosevelt USA - ALLIED | V-E Day MAY 8, 1945 |
Winston Churchill G.B. - ALLIED | V-J Day SEPT 2, 1945 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower SUPREME ALLIED COM. IN EUROPE | WWII Start Date SEPT 1 1939 |
George Patton US ARMY GENERAL | Attack on Pearl Harbor DEC 7, 1941 |
Douglas MacArthur SUPREME ALLIED COM. IN PACIFIC | D-Day JUNE 6, 1944 |
Chester Nimitz US NAVY ADMIRAL | |
Robert Oppenheimer FATHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMB | |
Werner Heisenberg NAZI/ ATOMIC BOMB SCIENTIST | |
Harry S. Truman USA - ALLIED | |
Joseph Stalin S.U. - ALLIED | |
Adolf Hitler GERMANY - AXIS | |
Heimrich Himmler CREATED THE FINAL SOLUTION | |
Benito Mussolini ITALY - AXIS |
Things You Should Know From L1
Totalitarianism, Nazism, Fascism, Communism
1 person Hitler Mussolini Stalin
Soviet/Germany Neutrality Pact
No fighting 2. No invading
The Allies and Axis sides
Things You Should Know From L2
Racial Purification
Removing the Jews out of Europe/putting them in concentration camps
The Holocaust
The Final Solution
The systematic genocide of Jews in Europe/ 6 million die
Things You Should Know From L3
Cash-and-Carry Policy / The Lend-Lease Act
Keeps the US out of War by giving weapons for $
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
F.D.R declares war on Japan
The USS Arizona is sunk
Things You Should Know From L4
GI Bill
Edu/training/housing to WWII vets
The Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese-Americans were thought to be spies
Things You Should Know From L5
The Allied War Plan
1. beat hitler 2. unconditional surrender
The Battles of Europe
STALINGRAD - Soviet Union STOPS THE GERMANS FROM GOING
INTO THE Soviet Union
TORCH (NORTH AFRICA) - TANK WARFARE BY PATTON
INVASION OF ITALY - HANG MUSSOLINI / ITALY JOINS ALLIES
D-DAY - LIBERATE WESTERN EUROPE / 2 FRONT ATTACK
MARKET GARDEN - MAJOR FAILURE / G.B. PLANS ATTACK
BULGE - THE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE OF WWII / PATTON SAVES DAY
V-E DAY
Mussolini’s Fate
Italy hung him in the streets
The 5 Beaches of Normandy
Utah/ Omaha/ Gold/ Juno/ Sword
Hitler’s Fate
Soviet Union invades berlin/ to bunker/ commits suicide/ V-E Day
Things You Should Know From L6
The Bataan Death March
FORCED MARCH OF ALLIED TROOPS BY THE JAPANESE / MANY WILL DIE
Island Hopping
NETWORK OF ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC TO REACH MAINLAND JAPAN
The Battles of the Pacific
MIDWAY - US WILL SINK 4 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS / US WINS
IWO JIMA - THE ICONIC MARINE PHOTO
OKINAWA - BLOODIEST BATTLE IN THE PACIFIC / TO REACH MAINLAND JAPAN
Things You Should Know From Oppenheimer
The Manhattan Project
CREATE THE ATOMIC BOMB / ROBERT OPPENHEIMER IN CHARGE
Codenames for the Bombs
FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (REAL)
TEST BOMB - GADGET / TRINITY TEST
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
LOCATIONS USED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB
V-J DAY ON THE USS MISSOURI
