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33 Cards in this Set
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August , 1941- Atlantic Charter- FDR and Churchill
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-self determination
-equal trading rights -system of general security |
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Early Danger
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The Allies were on the defensive by the time of the U.S. entry into the war. Churchill and Roosevelt decided to concentrate on defeating Hiter and use defensive action against tje Japanese in the Pacific. Hitler was seen as the greater threat.
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Hitler suspicious of...
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Soviet intentions in Eastern Europe, broke his non-agressive pact with the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 attacked the Soviet Union- drove deep into the Soviet Union- 15 miles from Moscow- Winter set in
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Operation Barbarosa- German drive into the Soviet Union
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- June 28- Minsk
-July 3- Stalin ordered "scorched earth" -July 10- Ukraine -August 20- Seige of Leningrad- 900 days -Sept. 19- Kieve- 33,771 Jews murdered -Oct.2- advanced to Moscow -Nov. 20- Rostov -Dec. 5- abandoned attack on Moscow- it got cold. |
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At that point, we...
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extended the Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union
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German and Italian forces were fighting in North Africa
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-Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - the "Desert Fox"
-Target- Suez canal and oil -Germans invaded Egypt and came within 70 miles of Alexandria -Soviet Union wanted a second major front in France |
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Operation Torch- November, 1942- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery
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-Eisenhower invaded Morocco
-Montgomery drove from Egypt -Rommel caught in between -Lost -250,000 Germans surrendered |
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Battle of Stalingrad?
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-300,000 German troops
-4 months -more Russians died than Americans in the entire war -Turning point of the war in Europe. |
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Invasion of Sicily- summer 1943
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-"soft underbelly of Europe"
-Italy surrendered- September, 1943 -Mussolini rescued by Germans -Allies fought their way north against the Germans -1944 Allies landed at Anzio -Six months later allies took Rome |
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Battle of the Atlantic?
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-1943-1944
-characterized b the contributions of science and technology -Radar and sonar- death charges - RAF and USAF- strategic bombing- night and day- incending bombing -Dresden- incendiary bombing |
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Soviet Offensive- 1943
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-Reclaimed Russian Cities
-Largest tank battle -Poland- established a puppet gov't at Lublin -Romania -Bulgaria -Helped Marshal tito in Yugoslavia |
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The War in the Pacific
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After Pearl Harbor the Japanese took the Philippines, Malaya, and Thailand. As General MacArthur left the Philippines- "I shall return." Other territories taken by the Japanese were: Hong Kong, Guam, Warke Island, the Gilbert Islands, Manila, and Singapore. In March, 1942 Java and the Dutch East Indies fell and the Burma road was closed.
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April, 1942
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Baatan Death March
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Doolittle Raid on Tokyo-April, 1942
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-America' revenge on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of the Coral Sea- May, 1942
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-first aircraft carrier battle
-it was a draw (but not really) -Japs are forced to retreat -don't achieve objective |
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Battle of the Coral Sea- May, 1942
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-fight aircraft carrier battle
-it was a draw (but not really) -Japs are forced to retreat and don't achieve objective |
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Battle of Midway- June, 1942-Admiral Chester Nimitz
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-Japanese goals...
-Results of Battle- significant damage to US- knock out our aircraft carrier (1) -We sink 3 Jap aircraft carriers and damage one -we won- it is the turning point in the war of the Pacific |
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"Four Freedoms Speech"
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FDR started to plan the post war peace- had a vision of the world and presented this to Congress in 1941
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Cairo Confernece
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-FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kai Shek
-Restore Chinese territory -Free Korea -Seize Japanese islands in the Pacific taken since 1914 |
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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-Situation in the Pacific
-Strategy of island hopping -1942-1943 |
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Diplomacy...
Casablanca Conferance |
-Roosevelt
-Churchill -Unconditional surrender -Resolve to attack Italy before France |
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The Election of 1944
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-Roosevelt and Truman- Democrats
-Thomas Dewey and John Bricker- Republicans -Issue- FDR's failing health -FDR won an unprecedented fourth term- strength in the urban vote -Congress increasingly conservative and Republican |
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Quebec Conferance
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-Roosevelt
-Churchill -Developement of the atomic bomb -Excluded Stalin -Never divulged information to Stalin |
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Road to victory...
Tehran Conference- 1943 |
-Churchill, Stalin, and FDR
-Agreed to invasion across English Channel -begin our strikes to soften Germany |
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Air attacks 1943
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-soften German resistance- allies destroyed the military, industrial, and transporatational facilities
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Operation Overload- D-Day- June 6, 1944
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-D-Day- June 6, 1944
-Eisenhower- commander -150,000 Allied soldiers -5 beaches -Goal? |
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Liberation of Paris
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-Pushed through Paris
-Rapid Allied advance -Germans retreated rapidy |
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Battle of the Bulge
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-German couter-offensive
-Bulged into the Allied lines -Total surprise to the Allies -Month-long battle -American losses- 75 to 80,000 |
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Yalta Conference- February, 1945
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-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
-Germany divided into 4 zones of occupation (Russian, American, British French) -Berlin divided into 4 -"friendly gov't in Poland" -S.U. to get 1/2 reparations - S.U. will enter war against Japan |
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Defeat of Germany
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-Allies attacked the west with Eisenhower
-Allies stopped 50 miles west of Berlin Soviets took Berlin -Russians and U.S. met at Elbe River |
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Discovery of the Holocaust
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-1942- "Final Solution"- systematic campaign to liquidate European Jews
-Extermination camps in Poland -6 million Jews- over 1 million children -5 million Slavs, Gypsies, and enemies of the German state |
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April 12, 1945
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Death of FDR
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Harry S, Truman
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-Vice President
-From Missouri -Not in the inner circle -No-nonsence approach w/ soviets -plain speaker |
