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Japanese Internment

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we would send Japanese to these internment camps if we thought they were hostile of spys

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Pearl Harbor

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  • a unique situation
    - The Navy was playing war games a month before the attack
    - Japanese spies got this info and used it on the guys on Pearl Harbor
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Largest concentration of japanese in America at the time

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west coast

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What did Congress do from the fear of a Japanese invasion

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put the American Japanese in internment camps
- they provided housing
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The elastic clause

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congress can do anything for the good of the country (very vague)

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The Coramotzu Case

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The Japanese who got stuck in the internment camps fought for their civil rights
The Supreme Court said Congress hod the power to put theirs.

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What kind of pilots were the Japanese pilots

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Elites of the Japanese Empire

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What were the Pilots ready to do if their aircraft was damaged or ran out of amo

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they were ready to die in the plane by crashing it into the U.S. boat

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What did the Japanese have in their fighter planes?
Why?

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Ancestors Samaries Sword

They would use to commit suicide for the empire if they where caught.

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How did the Japanese view the emperor?

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as a god

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Who does Geoge Marshel want to fight in Japan?

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George MacArthur

  • he was the leading general in the Philippines
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Who were the generals in the Atlantic theater?

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Ike

Geroge S Patton
Monty (Montgomery)
Ohmar Bradly

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  • he fought in the Atlantic theater
  • he was MacArtor’s right-hand man in the Philippines
  • gets picked by Marshell to go fight the Germans
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Victory Gardens

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People would grow food in their backyards

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Rashon Books

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Books with things that the govt thinks a family needs to survive so we can put the rest of resources for the war effort

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What did the woman do when they couldn’t wear pantyhose

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they wore cream to look like they had pantihose on

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WE CAN DO IT

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Rosie the Riveter
- She was Elinor Otto

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Cigarettes

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  • the currency of soldiers
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What did soldiers get from the Red Cross

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A Box
- Rashons
- toilet paper
- Cigarettes

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What was the biggest cigarette of the war?

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Lucky Strikes

French Prostitutes would take these as currency

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Lend Lease act

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this was a way we gave British supplies

  • we would lend England war materials and they would eventually “give it back”. and England would pay for it
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What did England have many sailers when British soldiers were stuck in Dunkirk, France

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they had to go pick up the soldiers and have the escape

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Who told FDR and the super weapons in Germany

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Albert Instine told him that Germany had the atomic bombs.

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After Pearl Harbor what fleet do we have left?

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the fleet in the Philippines.

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What happened to the fleet in the Philippines
We had to flee to Australia
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How many U.S. soldiers were left behind in the Philippines
11,000 they were captured.
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What did Hitler do to Stalin?
He goes to attack Stalingrad
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What makes America so good at manufacturing? (War Machine)
Natural Resources
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New Technology
- coding machine - Enigma (Germany coding machine)
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Church Hill What does Church Hill do when he finds out that they crack the German code out of bombing London
He lets them bomb London so the Germans don't know we crack their code.
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What kind of code did we make so the Japanese couldn't break
Navaho We used the Navaho people as communication people (Wind talkers)
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Manhattan Project 3 locations:
Nuclear bomb: 1. Design Planning: University Of Chicago - they worked under the football field 2. Building Fase Oak Ridge Tennessee 3. Testing Los Alamos
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What does Hitler build to protect his new empire
the Atlantic wall
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Vichy Government
Puppet government that bent the knee to Germany?
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Charles de Gaulle
President of France after the war Also led the French resistance during the war - highly organized resistance
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First battle against Hitler (for America) Why does Hitler want North Africa? What commander was out of their
North Africa the oil reserves Patton (Ol blood and guts)
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Italians, what did they think of the war?
They didn't want to fight
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June 6th
D-Day Invasion Normandy France
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What happens to Patton before the invasion
Ike used his as a decoy to trick the germanys on where they were going to invade France
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Conferance in Tehran
Iran Church Hill, FDR, Stallin make a plan to pinch Hitler from 3 sides of GErmany
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D-Day
- Took months of planning - Took place in Normandy - Ohmaha beach
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What was the decoy on D-Day
Pattons men Throws off Germany
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Landing Crafts on innovation day (D-Day)
- Higgins boats - Most men didn't make it out of the boats - some waited in the water but there were deep pots and died by drowning
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What was the battle plan of taking Ohmaha Beach?
Km by km slowly take over the area through the weeks.
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When the American troops reach Paris What did the French Underground do?
The French Underground takes credit of liberating Paris when really it was the British and American troops who did all the heavy lifting.
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When Winter sets in what happens to many of the WW2 men?
- they didn't have propper winter gear - they had to fight in the worst conditions ever
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What did Hitler do when he started to run out of men because he was losing men in Stalin Grad?
- Enlisted WW1 vets - elementary schoolers - anyone he could get to fight ( One last stand)
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitlers last stand - it worked for Hitler for a little bit - ( big push) - However, the Allies take over
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What country suffered the most during WW2
Russia - Stalingrad is a waiting land - people were brutalized by the Germans
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What did the Russians do to Germany during the closing of WW2
- Village to village the the soldiers would rape everyone from 8 - 80 yrs
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What happened to Hitler during the closing of WW2
- He became more isolated in his bunker in Berlin - Matter of time would close in on Berlin - he commits suicide with his girlfriend Eva Brond - Commits suicide after he gets married to her.
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Meeting of Yulta
- this takes place when the war is nearly over - Stalin, Church Hill, and FDR meet in a resort village (Yalta) on the black sea - Stalin invited American and British Deligation to rebuild Europe - ( How to take build up Germany)
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4 Zones of Germany
Zone 1 - Russian (Communist) Zone 2 - France ( Democracy) Zone 3 - U.S.A ( Democracy) Zone 4 - Great Britain ( Democracy) - Berlin is in Zone 1 (Russia)
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What would the 4 zones of Germany lead up to?
The split of Germany into 2 halves - East Germany - West Germany
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How did Stalin win some votes in Yalta?
- thanks FDR for the help in the war - Russia uses American-made weapons and tanks to fight Makes FDR a chairmen of the meeting (MIddle guy)
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Who was arguing during the Yalta meeting?
Churchill and Stalin - Churchill knew that Stalin was a dictator and he was lying about not wanting to make other countries communist - Wanted FDR to not trust Stalin.
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What was FDR's attitude during the Yalta meeting
- FDR wasn't feeling well - didn't really care when he was at the meeting. - Gave Stalin to many concessions.
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What was the Yalta Resort like?
- riddled with bed bugs
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Even though Germany surrendered who was still fighting?
Japanese
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How did the Jap's see the emperor?
As a God
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What did Emperor Hirohito tell his soldiers (Lied)
- An American marine had to kill a member of their family (untrue) - Jap-soldiers where indoctrinated and brainwashed. - This made the Jap's fight harder
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What branch of the U.S. military fought in the Pacific
Mariens
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Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
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Tojo
Real general to blame on the war
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Doolittle Raid 4/18/1942
The raid on Japan - Suicide mission - A bombing raid on Japan the flee to China - They had to make the plains as light as possible - stripped down the plain - Successful raid ( a punch back from Pearl Harbor) - Japanese get pissed a China for hiding American Piloit so they slotter Chines villages
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FDR death?
4/12/1945
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What secret was kept from Harry S. Truman?
we had a super bomb
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5/8/1945
Germany VE Victory Europe
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What did Patton say after the defeat of the Germans?
He said that we should go attack Russia
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America was working on the Super Bomb What was Germany working on?
Intercontinental Ballistic Rocket
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After the war what race takes place?
The Space Race
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Where do High German commanders go when the war is over (Flee)
Argentina
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Who helps us fight Japan?
After the defeat of Germany not to many people helped America fight Japan
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How did we gain ground in Japan?
Island hopping
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Bataan Death March
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Little Boy
Uranium Bomb dropped on Japan
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U.S.O
United Service Organization - make life easier for out G.I.'s - they would go to safe zones in Europe and help our boys feel better during the war
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Andrew Sisters
They were part of the U.S.O -they would go around the military bases and sing to them and put on shows (Buggie Woogie Bugle Boy)
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Fat Man
The second Bomb was dropped on Japan and the would surrender
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Trumans Plack on his desk
"the buck stops here"
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Lend Lease 9/2/45 Missouri
The Japanese surrender
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When McAurthor is in charge how does the Japanese take his changes to Japan?
They liked it
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Who was our next big enemy after the war?
Soviet Union USSR
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What was the Cold War?
Russians v.s. US in everything
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How many provinces are in the USSR
16 provinces
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Baby boomers
1946 - 1964 kids that were born after the WW2 when the economy was good
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What happens to the balance of power after WW2
U.S.A and USSR Europe's power has declined.
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United Nations
Collective Security between the states that joined. - all the countries that joined, when they see a bad actor put him down
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Who the leader of the United Nations The new leader of the World.
The U.S.A
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New technology after the War
T.V.
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What did America do with the leftover
- scrapped - but into storage - and got used to Military ducks.
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Created vehical in America that can out the war - where was it used?
Jeeps Post office
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