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| Why was the US trying to be isolated? |
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| After WWI US withdrew from world affairs |
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| What WWI memories were we left with? |
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Millions have died of war and flu
millions injured
world chaos
Great Depression
high unemployment |
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| What 5 treaties/ideas did the US get involved with on the road to peace? |
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Charles Evans Hughes created propaganda naval holiday between U.S., Britain, and Japan during which no ships built
4 Power Treaty
5 Power Treaty
9 Power Treaty
Kellogg Briand Pact |
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| Describe the Munich Conference |
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| Germany is appeased by Chamberlin in Britain; gives him Sudetland in Czeckslovokia |
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| Why did women not support the Lend-Lease Act? |
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| They did not want their sons to be drafted |
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| List the 6 points of the Atlantic Charter |
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Definition
Won't pursue territorial expansion
Free international trade
countries can choose form of gov't
equal access to raw materials
disarm aggressive states
rid world of poverty and spread world peace |
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| Describe Pearl Harbor and US reaction |
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Definition
December 7, 1941
"A day which will live in infamy"
2400 AM killed
U.S. is no longer iffy about going to war. Everyone is shocked and united |
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| Describe the Internment Camps for Japanese and the Supreme Court case(s) that went with it |
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Definition
February 1942, 2 months after Pearl Harbor
AM sent out flyers to all Japanese Americans that they had to all go to bus/train stations within 48 hours to go to camps.
Lost all belongings
Did not matter if they were U.S. citizens
families separated
no indoor plumbing
time of racial prejudice
known as executive order 9066
Japanese stayed in camps for 3 years
after we bomb Japan, Japanese are released
Korematsu v. US
tried to fight Supreme Court saying that it's not constitutional
Supreme court responded with it needed to protect Americans against spies. This outweighs individual rights |
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classification
symbolization
dehumanization
organization
polarization
preservation
extermination
denial |
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one of the lsat European battles
German army looked to be defeated
Winter
Eisenhower was not expecting a battle
Hitler did take advantage and plans a surprise attack and succeeded
soldiers did not know until night before
Such a large area, Hitler going crazy
took over 100 AM and shot them in field
People died of frostbite
By end of January Germany retreated |
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| Battle of Normandy, D-Day, Great Crusade.... |
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Definition
aka-European Theater
Rommel of Germany "dessert fox"- he put all the stuff on beach
before we attacked we came up with a fake invasion of North Africa, fake Eisenhower, fake trucks and tanks, we would have been outmanned and outgunned otherwise
parachute bands took out bridges
dummies thrown out of planes
Most landed in Omaha and Utah beach
we lost 90% of our companies on the beach
captured 80 miles of France by end of the day
Rommel withdrew his troops, Hitler so angry he killed himself
Within two weeks Paton had taken 100,000 Germans and retrieved Paris |
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| What are the five landings? |
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First time AM and Japan going to fight
all done in ocean, thin to stop Japan from getting to Australia
USS lexington, USS Yorktown
US commander- Nimitz
Japanese admiral-Yamamoto
First experience with Zero Fighter Planes, glass tanks are open
Japan wins, but we kept them from getting to Australia |
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1942
midway is close to Hawaii, stop Japan from taking midway
planned to fake invasion trying to draw US away; this failed
fought out at sea
called "The Fatal Five Minutes"
Japan decided to remove torpedos from planes and replace them with explosives and aim for our planes, while Japan is on their battle ship switching torpedoes, we come by and bomb their ship. We win. |
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completely changed how we fight
no fire when we first land
go to bed, 3:00am-bombs come and US is slaughtered
eventually don't accept surrenders, we are living off th eland
We win and get reinforcements and outnumber them |
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largest US surrender in history
killed all people who had Japanese stuff
out people in groups of 10, if one person tries to escape, they kill all
marched 60 miles, only covered 6-10 miles a day, standing at attention for hours
meals were rice with maggots and other bugs in them. |
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"throwing human flesh against reinforced concrete"
island only 5x2 miles, no civilians, black sand beaches
barracks miles deep underground
ended up dividing men into two groups, airfield and mt. siravachi
famous picture taken is the second flag, first flag goes up feb. 23, 1945
Jo Rosenthal took this picture
only 200 japanese survived,
most costly battle |
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Women and children blowing themselves up
FDR and hitler dead
AM wins
2 Japanese commanders kill themselves
74,000 Japanese surrender to pow camps |
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70 million soldiers fought, 17 million died
35 million civilians died
70 nations took part
Makes |
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makes America no 1 world power
America is virutally untouched
Europe is completely devestated
opens door for new AM leaders |
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AM told allies they had to pay cash for supplies, and they had to come pick it up.
We did not get attacked and we got help with unemployment problems |
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6 million served
hospitals, red cross
rosie the riviter
helped run farms/fundraisers
took mens place in factories |
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