Chapter 14 - 15

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Leader of the world

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Adolf Hitler - German dictator

Benito Mussolini - Italian dictator

Joeseph Stalin - soviet union dictator

Chiang Kai shek - Chinese leader

Hideki Tojo - prime minister of Japan

Hirohito - emperor of Japan

Neville Chamberlain /winiston church hill prime minister of Britain

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Franklin Roosevelt and harry Truman

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U.s presidents

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Totalitarian government

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Political /systems where the government has complete control over its citizens lives

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Nazism

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Based on extreme nationalism, racism, and military expansion in Germany from 1933 to 1935 because of Hitler

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Hitler territory gains

Sudaent land

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Sept 1938 givin to hitler In a bargaining agreement

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Appeased

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Meaning giving into a hostal pover to keep peace

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Hitler territory gains

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Blitzing attacks

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(Lightning war) used by the Germans using air and ground forces for a quick victory

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Lend - lease act

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1941 it allowed president Roosevelt to lend on sell war supplies whose defence he felt important to the u.s people who were against this act thought it was a declaration of war against germany

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German u - boats attack's

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Fall of 1941 hitler ordered u-boats to attack any American

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Atlantic front battles

Battle of dundirk

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(1940) frenent British troops around 500,000 were trapped by the nazi army on a 7 mile permeter due to weather of 338,000 troops were by boat coming from england

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Battle of britian

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Hitler goal was to destroy the royal air force (RAF) and take control of england. He ordered London to be bombed for 60 night straights the British people remained united and did not give up

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Luftwaffe

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German air force

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Fact

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From bases in england ,allied bombers launched non- stopped attacks against germany

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Tuskegee airmen(red tails)

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African American fighter squad Ron ,escorted the bombers and protected them from enemy fighter pilot s

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Ghettos

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Segrated area of city where Jew moved

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Concentration camps

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Were labored camps or extermination campes located in germeny and Poland

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Genocide

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Nazi final solution ,the deliberate killing of an entire group of people

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Home front : here in the u.s

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G.I

Government issue (soilder referred)

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Women's auxiliary amry carp:

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A bill that allowed women to serve in non cambat positions . woemen worked as nurses , ambulance drivers , radio operator s,electrician and piolets - anything not involving combat.

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Fact

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*1942 auto production ended due to steel and chrome - *1942 no cars / trucks were made

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Fact

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Rationing established fixed amounts of goods for the war effort (military) ration books with coupons were used for meat ,suger, coffee ,shoes ,and gas

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Office of scientific research and development recruited scientists to improve or invent:

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Sonar radar ,penicillin, DDT insect repellent and the atomic bomb

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Pacific front:

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U.s fighting Japanese our troops were commands by general MacArthur

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Pearl harbor

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Hawii ,December 7 1941 Japanese surprise attack our us naval base 2,403 American were killed 1,178 American were wounded the next day the us declared war on Japanese

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Executive order 9066

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Primarily targeted Japanese Americans most of those imprisoned were us citizens or legal residents

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Japanese American interment camp

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Around 120,000 Japanese American people were relocated and confined to prison camps surrounded by barbed wire and armored guards in the western united states most of their businesses, home and belongings at the time it was justified as protecting against domestic espionage and sabotage but their was never any proof of any plans or acts

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Island hopping

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Less fortified islands build airfields and move closer to japan

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Kamikaze pilots

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Were suicide attack by Japanese pilots on allied ship

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Doolittle raid

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April 1942 16 b- 25 bombers took off from the aircraft carrier the hornet that bombed Tokyo and 4 other Japanese cities. This proved to Japan they were not invincible

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Battle of midway

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June (1942 ) strategic island in the pacific, Japan planned and take midway vs. Admiral Chester Nimitz surprise attack them--- Japan lost 4 aircraft and over 300 planes

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Iwo jima

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( Feb.to march 1945) "sulfer" island it was important for the u.s because it provided a base that heavy loaded bomber could reach Japan over 20 thousand Japanese were underground in tunnels and caves over 60 thousand marine were killed there it took 5 weeks to take the island

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Okinawa

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April-june 1945 Japans last defense outpost and it had a vital airbase necessary for invading open 7,600 americans killed by sea and land japm lost110,000

Total troops -(500,000)

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Fact

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Berlin, Germany fell, Hitler committed suicide - this officially ended the war in Europe - victory in Europe (ve day)

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Manhattan project

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Los Alamos , new mexico it was a government sponcered program to develops the atomic bomb

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J .Robert Oppenheimer

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The lead scientist who developed the atomic bomb ( 1942- 1945)

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Fact

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President Truman ... Was the one who made the final decision to drop the atomic bombs

Aug 6" fat man " dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 9" fat man " dropped on Nagasaki

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Vj day

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Sept.2 1945 victory over Japan Japanese surrendered

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Korewatsu vs u.s

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(1944) Fred korewatsu was a Japanese American who refused to report to a canter where he would be sent to an interment camp he was arrested he argued he had been arrested because he was denied equal protection because he was Japanese American the court upheld that executive order 9066 was justified for security reasons

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Nurenburg war trial Oct(1945)

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Do to the discovery of Hitlers death camps 21 Nazi leaders were put on trial for crime aganist humanity some were hung , other received long prision terms

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Fact

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Due to the discovery of concentration camps and the holocaust- demanded @ support for a tamish land increase I seal was established in 1948 as a safe community were Jews could live