1. Unit 6 Content Review pgs 24 - 28
WORLD WAR II

2. World War II: Timeline pg 24
Hitler invades Poland
September 1, 1939
Bombing of Pearl Harbor (U.S. enters war)
December 7, 1941
Bataan Death March
April 1942
Battle of Midway
June 1942
Invasion of Normandy
June 6, 1944
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944
German Surrender (V-E Day is May 8)
End of April into early May 1945
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
August 1945

3. Causes of WWII – pg 25 Rise of European Dictators
Adolf Hitler: Nazi leader in Germany 1933
Benito Mussolini: Fascist leader of Italy 1922
Joseph Stalin: Communist leader of Soviet Union 1922
Failure of the League of Nations
Goal was to prevent large scale war after World War I. United States and Soviet Union did not join leaving it too weak to prevent the rise of dictators.
Germany’s Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939: The end of the APPEASMENT policy that Britain and France had practiced toward Hitler, and the first use of German blitzkrieg.
Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack on U.S. Naval forces at Hawaii, America abandons policy of neutrality and joins Allies..enters war

4. The Homefront – pg 26 Rationing and Wartime Production
Factories switched from peace to wartime production (cars  tanks)
Ends the unemployment of the Great Depression
Rationing of food and supplies to send resources overseas to support the allied war effort.
Women in the Workforce
Women worked in the military (mostly clerical) and in factory jobs that had been left by fighting men.
Minorities
Tuskegee Airmen: first African American pilots, fought in the war and began the work of breaking down racial stereotypes.
Navajo Code-Talkers: used their native language to allow Allied communications in the Pacific Theater ‘in the clear’..
Japanese Internment (EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066)
Japanese-Americans put in camps out of fear they may spy for their “homeland”… “CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER” v. civil rights

5. War in Europe – pg 27 Campaign in North Africa & Italy
Although Stalin wanted the U.S. to begin by invading France, we first went to North Africa.
Gen. George Patton led the troops there to victory over the German and then Italian forces in Sicily.
D-Day / Normandy Landings
June Allies invade Normandy and create a two-front war for the German forces (fighting in the Soviet Union, and now France).
Campaign in France & Germany
From Normandy the Allies took Paris, and moved east.
After the German defeat at the Battle of the Bulge, the Allies move in to Germany and eventually take Berlin.
The Holocaust
Genocide of the Jewish and other “undesirable” populations according to Hitler and the Nazi forces.
Results in the deaths of nearly 12 million people (6 million Jews)

6. War in the Pacific – pg 28 Bataan Death March
Philippines is invaded by Japan and 75,000 U.S. / Filipino forces surrender
POWs are forced to march through 60 miles of jungle, killing about 5,000 American soldiers.
Battle of Midway (last Japanese offensive in Pacific)
Turning point of the war in the Pacific
Admiral Chester Nimitz anticipated a Japanese attack and turned the tables to destroy much of the Japanese fleet.
Island-Hopping Campaign
Douglas MacArthur’s strategy in the Pacific was to move troops island to island to avoid Japanese troops where possible and gain a closer vantage point to mainland Japan for U.S. bombers
Manhattan Project & Atomic Bombs
President Truman is advised and decides to drop atomic bombs; developed by the Manhattan Project; on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan to quickly end the war and save American lives that would be lost in an invasion of the Japanese home islands